Weg
[veːk]
The verdict
“Weg” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #201) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #201
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - einfache, oft geringer befestigte, aber auch unbefestigte, als allgemeiner Weg nicht klassifizierte Verkehrslinie zum Begehen oder Befahren
Corpus desk
Index DE-weg · Weg · German
Weg · rank #201 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #201
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH Uhr
Nearest frequency peer: Uhr (-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 “Weg”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Ende
Ende
99,803 corpus weight
- nie
nie
99,802 corpus weight
- Uhr
Uhr
99,801 corpus weight
- Weg
Weg
99,800 corpus weight
- wegen
wegen
99,799 corpus weight
- besser
besser
99,798 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Weg” 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 | Weg |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [veːk] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #201 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “Weg” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Weg is neighbouring look-alikes ("wo", "WM", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [veːk]. Frequency #201 among 2,930 “W” headwords. 8 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Weg, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "wo", "WM", "wi", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Weg, spelled W-E-G.
Definition
- 1einfache, oft geringer befestigte, aber auch unbefestigte, als allgemeiner Weg nicht klassifizierte Verkehrslinie zum Begehen oder Befahren
- 2bestimmte, zum Erreichen des Zieles einzuschlagende einzelne oder auch wechselnde Richtung
- 3etwas Verbindendes; Strecke
- 4aktiver Gang, Unterwegssein
- 5allgemeine oder mathematische Möglichkeit oder Art und Weise, eine Lösung zu erreichen
- 6Verlauf des Ortes eines bewegten Objektes bei fortschreitender Zeit
- 7Länge einer zurückgelegten Strecke von einem Ort A zu einem Ort B (einschließlich der Abweichungen von der kürzesten Verbindung)
- 8eine bestimmte Art stetiger Abbildungen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Weg appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dieser Weg ist mir zu holprig.
„Zwei Schimpansen, die einander nie gesehen, nie mit einander gekämpft und einander nie die Läuse aus dem Pelz gesucht haben, wissen nicht, ob sie einander über den Weg trauen können, ob es sich lohnt, dem anderen zu helfen, oder welcher der beiden in der Rangordnung über dem anderen steht.“
Synonyms
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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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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.