Web
[vɛp]
The verdict
“Web” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #4,476) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #4,476
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - für World Wide Web
Corpus desk
Index DE-web · Web · German
Web · rank #4,476 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,476
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH vorerst
Nearest frequency peer: vorerst (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Web”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- verzichtet
verzichtet
95,528 corpus weight
- Vielzahl
Vielzahl
95,527 corpus weight
- vorerst
vorerst
95,526 corpus weight
- Web
Web
95,525 corpus weight
- Witze
Witze
95,523 corpus weight
- womöglich
womöglich
95,522 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Web” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | Web |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [vɛp] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #4,476 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “Web” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Web is neighbouring look-alikes ("wo", "WM", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [vɛp]. Frequency #4,476 among 2,930 “W” headwords. Gloss: "für World Wide Web".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Web, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "wo", "WM", "wi", 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 its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Web, spelled W-E-B.
Definition
- 1für World Wide Web
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Web appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Warst du heute schon im Web?
This word in other languages
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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- "Web" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "wo". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #4,476 among German headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.