weitverbreitet
[ˈvaɪ̯tfɛɐ̯ˌbʁaɪ̯tət]
The verdict
“weitverbreitet” is uncommon German (frequency #93,836 among 2,930 “W” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,836
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sehr, allgemein verbreitet; an vielen Orten vorkommend
Corpus desk
Index DE-weitverbreitet · weitverbreitet · German
weitverbreitet · rank #93,836 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,836
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH weiterlebt
Nearest frequency peer: weiterlebt (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „weitverbreitet“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- weiterführe…
weiterführender
6,168 corpus weight
- weitergehend
weitergehend
6,167 corpus weight
- weiterlebt
weiterlebt
6,166 corpus weight
- weitverbrei…
weitverbreitet
6,165 corpus weight
- Werbefilme
Werbefilme
6,164 corpus weight
- westafrikan…
westafrikanische
6,163 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „weitverbreitet“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | weitverbreitet |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈvaɪ̯tfɛɐ̯ˌbʁaɪ̯tət] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #93,836 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „weitverbreitet“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
weitverbreitet is uncommon German at frequency #93,836 among 2,930 “W” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈvaɪ̯tfɛɐ̯ˌbʁaɪ̯tət]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "sehr, allgemein verbreitet; an vielen Orten vorkommend".
weitverbreitet doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is weitverbreitet, spelled W-E-I-T-V-E-R-B-R-E-I-T-E-T.
Definition
- 1sehr, allgemein verbreitet; an vielen Orten vorkommend
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how weitverbreitet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Millionen Arbeitnehmer in Deutschland arbeiten auf Abruf, vor allem in der Gastronomie sind diese Arbeitsverhältnisse weitverbreitet.
Spinnen sind weitverbreitete Lebewesen.
This word in other languages
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
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 14 letters (nearest by frequency rank).