Weigerung
[ˈvaɪ̯ɡəʁʊŋ]
The verdict
“Weigerung” has 13 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #24,991. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,991
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Handlung, etwas abzulehnen
Corpus desk
Index DE-weigerung · Weigerung · German
Weigerung · rank #24,991 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #24,991
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH Walde
Nearest frequency peer: Walde (-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 „Weigerung“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- wackelt
wackelt
75,013 corpus weight
- Waisenhaus
Waisenhaus
75,012 corpus weight
- Walde
Walde
75,011 corpus weight
- Weigerung
Weigerung
75,010 corpus weight
- Weilburg
Weilburg
75,009 corpus weight
- Weltbank
Weltbank
75,008 corpus weight
What this shows „Weigerung“ 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 | Weigerung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈvaɪ̯ɡəʁʊŋ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #24,991 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Weigerung“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Weigerung (IPA [ˈvaɪ̯ɡəʁʊŋ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,991 among 2,930 “W” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Handlung, etwas abzulehnen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Weigerung, with forms such as "ewigerung", "wegierung", and "weiegrung". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "weigern", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Weigerung, spelled W-E-I-G-E-R-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1Handlung, etwas abzulehnen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Weigerung appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Ich habe mir oft gesagt, daß Sophie meine erste Weigerung vielleicht mit einer heimlichen Erleichterung aufnahm und daß ihr Vorschlag ein gut Teil Überwindung in sich schloß.“
„Nicht in ein Flugzeug zu steigen, ist eine ehrenhafte Weigerung, an der Klimakrise mitzuwirken.“
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ewigerung
- wegierung
- weiegrung
- weigernug
- weigerrung
- weigerugn
- weigerungg
- weigerunng
- weigeurng
- weiggerung
- weigreung
- wiegerung
- wweigerung
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Weigerung - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "Weigerung", 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 (13 here; floor ≥5).