Weber
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,553
in German word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Weber is aGermannoun. It means: Beruf, der sich mit der Herstellung von Geweben, textilen Stoffen beschäftigt Pronounced [ˈveːbɐ]. It ranks #3,553 in German word frequency. Often confused with wer and Wege.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Weber |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈveːbɐ] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,553 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Weber is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈveːbɐ]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,553 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for Weber, with forms such as "ewber", "wbeer", and "webber". 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, "wer", "Wege", "Wehe", 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 Weber, spelled W-E-B-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Beruf, der sich mit der Herstellung von Geweben, textilen Stoffen beschäftigt
- 2Person, die webt, Textilien herstellt
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ewber,wbeer,webber,weberr,webre,weebr,wweber
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Weber
Misspelling Variants of "Weber"
Frequency rank: #3,553 in German
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Nearby German words
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