Weg
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#201
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Weg is aGermannoun. It means: einfache, oft geringer befestigte, aber auch unbefestigte, als allgemeiner Weg nicht klassifizierte Verkehrslinie zum Begehen oder Befahren Pronounced [veːk]. It ranks #201 in German word frequency. Often confused with wo and WM.
| 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) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Weg is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [veːk]. Corpus data places it at rank #201 in overall German word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Weg in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 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 Weg, spelled W-E-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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
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Frequency rank: #201 in German
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