Wende
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,397
in German word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Wende is aGermannoun. It means: einschneidende Veränderung, Umbruch Pronounced [ˈvɛndə]. It ranks #4,397 in German word frequency. Often confused with wenn and Wind.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Wende |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈvɛndə] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #4,397 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Wende is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈvɛndə]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,397 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for Wende, with forms such as "ewnde", "wedne", and "wendde". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "wenn", "Wind", "werd", 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 Wende, spelled W-E-N-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1einschneidende Veränderung, Umbruch
- 2friedliche Revolution 1989 in mehreren Ostblock-Ländern, insbesondere die Wende in der DDR
- 3historische Veränderung zu einem neuen Abschnitt
- 4Technik des Richtungswechsels am Ende des Schwimmbeckens
- 5Sprung, bei dem die Vorderseite des Körpers dem Gerät zugewandt ist
- 6Figur, bei der ein Bogen auf der gleichen Kante vorwärts und rückwärts ausgeführt wird
- 7Segelmanöver zur Richtungsänderung
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ewnde,wedne,wendde,wened,wennde,wnede,wwende
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Wende
Misspelling Variants of "Wende"
Frequency rank: #4,397 in German
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