wars

/[…]/ verb

Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,861

in German word usage

Misspellings

6

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

wars is aGermanverb. It means: 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs war Pronounced […]. It ranks #3,861 in German word frequency. Often confused with WS and WR.

Key facts for wars
PropertyValue
Headwordwars
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[…]
Letters4
Frequency rank#3,861
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of wars in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for wars is 4 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as […]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,861 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs war".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for wars, with forms such as "awrs", "warrs", and "warss". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "WS", "WR", "wir", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is wars, spelled W-A-R-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs war

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: awrs,warrs,warss,wasr,wras,wwars

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for wars

Misspelling Variants of "wars"

awrs4warrs5warss5wasr4wras4wwars5
Misspelling Variants of "wars"

Frequency rank: #3,861 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "wars"?
"wars" is spelled W-A-R-S. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "wars" mean?
As a verb, "wars" means: 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs war
What words are commonly confused with "wars"?
"wars" is commonly confused with "WS", "WR", "wir". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "wars"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "wars" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "wars" come from?
"wars" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby German words

Other entries that begin with the letter W in our German index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.