wegnehmen
[ˈvɛkˌneːmən]
The verdict
“wegnehmen” has 14 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #11,360. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,360
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - unerlaubterweise in seinen Besitz bringen
Corpus desk
Index DE-wegnehmen · wegnehmen · German
wegnehmen · rank #11,360 · 14 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,360
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH Wecker
Nearest frequency peer: Wecker (-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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „wegnehmen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Vorschrift
Vorschrift
88,644 corpus weight
- wage
wage
88,643 corpus weight
- Wecker
Wecker
88,642 corpus weight
- wegnehmen
wegnehmen
88,641 corpus weight
- Werkes
Werkes
88,640 corpus weight
- Wiederherst…
Wiederherstellung
88,639 corpus weight
What this shows „wegnehmen“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
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 | wegnehmen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈvɛkˌneːmən] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #11,360 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „wegnehmen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around wegnehmen (IPA [ˈvɛkˌneːmən]), averb. Corpus frequency is #11,360 among 2,930 “W” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for wegnehmen, with forms such as "ewgnehmen", "wegenhmen", and "weggnehmen". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "wegzunehmen", "weggehen", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is wegnehmen, spelled W-E-G-N-E-H-M-E-N.
Definition
- 1unerlaubterweise in seinen Besitz bringen
- 2etwas von dem Ort entfernen, an dem es liegt/steht
- 3sich etwas von dem greifen, was angeboten daliegt
- 4weniger werden lassen, reduzieren
- 5für sich beanspruchen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how wegnehmen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Es war ganz leicht, dem Kind seinen Lolli wegzunehmen.
„Die Banker nahmen uns den Glauben an den Kapitalismus weg; die bayerischen Wähler nahmen uns einfach über Nacht den Mythos CSU weg.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ewgnehmen
- wegenhmen
- weggnehmen
- wegnehemn
- wegnehhmen
- wegnehmenn
- wegnehmmen
- wegnehmne
- wegnemhen
- wegnhemen
- wegnnehmen
- wengehmen
- wgenehmen
- wwegnehmen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of wegnehmen - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "wegnehmen", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).