Washington
[ˈvɔʃɪŋtn̩]
The verdict
“Washington” has 16 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #2,750. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,750
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bundesstaat im Nordwesten der USA
Corpus desk
Index DE-washington · Washington · German
Washington · rank #2,750 · 16 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,750
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH verlor
Nearest frequency peer: verlor (-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 „Washington“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- verbessern
verbessern
97,254 corpus weight
- Vereins
Vereins
97,253 corpus weight
- verlor
verlor
97,252 corpus weight
- Washington
Washington
97,251 corpus weight
- wächst
wächst
97,250 corpus weight
- Zeitschrift
Zeitschrift
97,249 corpus weight
What this shows „Washington“ 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 | Washington |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈvɔʃɪŋtn̩] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #2,750 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Washington“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around Washington (IPA [ˈvɔʃɪŋtn̩]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #2,750 among 2,930 “W” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for Washington, with forms such as "awshington", "wahsington", and "washhington". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Washingtons", "Washingtoner", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Washington, spelled W-A-S-H-I-N-G-T-O-N.
Definition
- 1Bundesstaat im Nordwesten der USA
- 2kurz für Washington, D.C.
- 3eine Stadt in der Grafschaft Tyne and Wear im Nordosten von England
- 4verschiedene Städte in den USA, unter anderem in Indiana, Iowa und Pennsylvania
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Washington appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Hauptstadt von Washington ist Olympia.
Sie war von ihrer Reise nach Washington begeistert.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- awshington
- wahsington
- washhington
- washignton
- washinggton
- washingotn
- washingtno
- washingtonn
- washingtton
- washinngton
- washintgon
- washnigton
- wasihngton
- wasshington
- wsahington
- wwashington
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Washington - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "Washington", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).