Wehrdienst
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#21,844
in German word usage
Misspellings
16
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
Wehrdienst is aGermannoun. It means: zeitlich begrenzter Dienst in den Streitkräften eines Landes, der aufgrund einer gesetzlichen Pflicht oder einer freiwilligen Selbstverpflichtung geleistet wird Pronounced [ˈveːɐ̯ˌdiːnst].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Wehrdienst |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈveːɐ̯ˌdiːnst] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #21,844 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Wehrdienst is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈveːɐ̯ˌdiːnst]. Corpus data places it at rank #21,844 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for Wehrdienst, with forms such as "ewhrdienst", "wehdrienst", and "wehhrdienst". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 Wehrdienst, spelled W-E-H-R-D-I-E-N-S-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1zeitlich begrenzter Dienst in den Streitkräften eines Landes, der aufgrund einer gesetzlichen Pflicht oder einer freiwilligen Selbstverpflichtung geleistet wird
- 2militärische (Hilfs-)Tätigkeit, zu deren Ausübung ein Bürger durch die Herrschenden verpflichtet wird; Tätigkeit, die im Rahmen des Wehrdienstes [1a] verrichtet wird
- 3Einrichtung und Mannschaft zur Brandbekämpfung, zum Katastrophenschutz und ähnlichen Tätigkeiten; eine Feuer-, Öl- oder Chemiewehr
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Also misspelled as: ewhrdienst,wehdrienst,wehhrdienst,wehrddienst,wehrdeinst,wehrdiennst,wehrdiensst,wehrdienstt,wehrdients,wehrdiesnt,wehrdinest,wehridenst,wehrrdienst,werhdienst,wherdienst,wwehrdienst
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Misspelling Variants of "Wehrdienst"
Frequency rank: #21,844 in German
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