wen
[veːn]
The verdict
“wen” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #1,529) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #1,529
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Akkusativ von wer
Corpus desk
Index DE-wen · wen · German
wen · rank #1,529 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,529
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH Verlag
Nearest frequency peer: Verlag (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “wen”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- tritt
tritt
98,475 corpus weight
- Verkehr
Verkehr
98,474 corpus weight
- Verlag
Verlag
98,473 corpus weight
- wen
wen
98,472 corpus weight
- Werke
Werke
98,471 corpus weight
- wichtiger
wichtiger
98,470 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “wen” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | wen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | [veːn] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #1,529 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “wen” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for wen is neighbouring look-alikes ("wo", "WM", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced [veːn]. Frequency #1,529 among 2,930 “W” headwords. Gloss: "Akkusativ von wer".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for wen, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. 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.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 wen, spelled W-E-N.
Definition
- 1Akkusativ von wer
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how wen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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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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- "wen" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "wo". View pair
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.