Weltkrieg
[ˈvɛltˌkʁiːk]
The verdict
“Weltkrieg” has 14 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #2,698. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,698
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - bewaffneter Konflikt, an welchem viele Länder beteiligt sind und dessen Kampfhandlungen sich über einen großen Teil der Erde erstrecken
Corpus desk
Index DE-weltkrieg · Weltkrieg · German
Weltkrieg · rank #2,698 · 14 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,698
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH volle
Nearest frequency peer: volle (-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 „Weltkrieg“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- verhindert
verhindert
97,306 corpus weight
- Verstand
Verstand
97,305 corpus weight
- volle
volle
97,304 corpus weight
- Weltkrieg
Weltkrieg
97,303 corpus weight
- air
air
97,302 corpus weight
- anhand
anhand
97,301 corpus weight
What this shows „Weltkrieg“ 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 | Weltkrieg |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈvɛltˌkʁiːk] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #2,698 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Weltkrieg“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around Weltkrieg (IPA [ˈvɛltˌkʁiːk]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,698 among 2,930 “W” headwords. Dominant gloss: "bewaffneter Konflikt, an welchem viele Länder beteiligt sind und dessen Kampfhandlungen sich über einen großen Teil der Erde erstrecken".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for Weltkrieg, with forms such as "ewltkrieg", "welktrieg", and "welltkrieg". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Weltkriegs", "Weltkriege", "Weltkrieges", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Weltkrieg, spelled W-E-L-T-K-R-I-E-G.
Definition
- 1bewaffneter Konflikt, an welchem viele Länder beteiligt sind und dessen Kampfhandlungen sich über einen großen Teil der Erde erstrecken
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Weltkrieg appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Der latente Bürgerkrieg wird zum latenten Weltkrieg aller gegen alle.“
„Das mächtige Kreuz vor der Kirche, von Steinmetzen aus heimischem Basalt gehauen, imponiert durch seine monumentale Größe ebenso wie durch seine Aussagekraft als Mahnmal für die Toten der beiden Weltkriege des 20. Jahrhunderts (…).“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ewltkrieg
- welktrieg
- welltkrieg
- weltkireg
- weltkkrieg
- weltkreig
- weltkriegg
- weltkrige
- weltkrrieg
- weltrkieg
- welttkrieg
- wetlkrieg
- wletkrieg
- wweltkrieg
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Weltkrieg - 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 "Weltkrieg", 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).