weltweit
[ˈvɛltvaɪ̯t]
The verdict
“weltweit” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #1,439. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,439
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - auf die ganze Welt ausgedehnt; sich über die ganze Welt erstreckend
Corpus desk
Index DE-weltweit · weltweit · German
weltweit · rank #1,439 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,439
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH verantwortlich
Nearest frequency peer: verantwortlich (-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 „weltweit“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Türkei
Türkei
98,565 corpus weight
- Umgebung
Umgebung
98,564 corpus weight
- verantwortl…
verantwortlich
98,563 corpus weight
- weltweit
weltweit
98,562 corpus weight
- Wünsche
Wünsche
98,561 corpus weight
- youtube
youtube
98,560 corpus weight
What this shows „weltweit“ 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 | weltweit |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈvɛltvaɪ̯t] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,439 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „weltweit“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around weltweit (IPA [ˈvɛltvaɪ̯t]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #1,439 among 2,930 “W” headwords. Dominant gloss: "auf die ganze Welt ausgedehnt; sich über die ganze Welt erstreckend".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for weltweit, with forms such as "ewltweit", "welltweit", and "weltewit". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "weltweite", "weltweiten", "weltweiter", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is weltweit, spelled W-E-L-T-W-E-I-T.
Definition
- 1auf die ganze Welt ausgedehnt; sich über die ganze Welt erstreckend
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how weltweit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Viele Populärwissenschaftler prognostizieren eine weltweite Klimakatastrophe.
„Während Englisch die weltweit führende Wirtschafts- und Wissenschaftssprache und die dominante Lingua franca sei, eigne sich die deutsche Sprache als »regionale Kontaktsprache für die Kommunikation zwischen mitteleuropäischen Nachbarn« (…).“
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ewltweit
- welltweit
- weltewit
- welttweit
- weltweitt
- weltweti
- weltwiet
- weltwweit
- welwteit
- wetlweit
- wletweit
- wweltweit
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of weltweit - 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 "weltweit", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).