wants
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The verdict
“wants” has 8 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #49,376. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,376
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs want
Corpus desk
Index DE-wants · wants · German
wants · rank #49,376 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,376
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH Wanderers
Nearest frequency peer: Wanderers (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „wants“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Waldboden
Waldboden
50,628 corpus weight
- Walküre
Walküre
50,627 corpus weight
- Wanderers
Wanderers
50,626 corpus weight
- wants
wants
50,625 corpus weight
- Warstein
Warstein
50,624 corpus weight
- waste
waste
50,623 corpus weight
What this shows „wants“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wants |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #49,376 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „wants“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around wants (IPA […]), averb. Corpus frequency is #49,376 among 2,930 “W” headwords. Dominant gloss: "3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs want".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for wants, with forms such as "awnts", "wannts", and "wanst". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "was", "Wat", "wars", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is wants, spelled W-A-N-T-S.
Definition
- 13. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs want
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- awnts
- wannts
- wanst
- wantss
- wantts
- watns
- wnats
- wwants
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of wants - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "wants", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).