wem
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,002
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
wem is aGermanpron. It means: Dativ von wer Pronounced [veːm]. It ranks #2,002 in German word frequency. Often confused with wo and WM.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wem |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Pron |
| IPA | [veːm] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #2,002 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for wem is 3 letters long, classified as apron, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [veːm]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,002 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Dativ von wer".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for wem in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "wo", "WM", "wi", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 wem, spelled W-E-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dativ von wer
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Frequency rank: #2,002 in German
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