WEA
[veːʔeːˈʔaː]
The verdict
“WEA” is uncommon German (frequency #57,558 among 2,930 “W” headwords), classed as an abbreviation. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,558
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Windenergieanlage
Corpus desk
Index DE-wea · WEA · German
WEA · rank #57,558 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,558
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH wasserfest
Nearest frequency peer: wasserfest (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „WEA“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Warteschlan…
Warteschlangen
42,446 corpus weight
- wasserdichte
wasserdichte
42,445 corpus weight
- wasserfest
wasserfest
42,444 corpus weight
- WEA
WEA
42,443 corpus weight
- Wechseljahre
Wechseljahre
42,442 corpus weight
- wehret
wehret
42,441 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „WEA“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | WEA |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | [veːʔeːˈʔaː] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #57,558 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „WEA“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
WEA is uncommon German at frequency #57,558 among 2,930 “W” headwords, classed as anabbreviation, transcribed [veːʔeːˈʔaː]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for WEA, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is WEA, spelled W-E-A.
Definition
- 1Windenergieanlage
- 2Wasser- und Energieamt
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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