wenigen
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,217
in German word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
16
similar word pairs
wenigen is anGermanadj. It means: Genitiv Singular Maskulinum der starken Flexion des Adjektivs wenig Pronounced [ˈveːnɪɡn̩]. It ranks #1,217 in German word frequency. Often confused with weniger and winzigen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wenigen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ˈveːnɪɡn̩] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,217 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for wenigen is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈveːnɪɡn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,217 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 20 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for wenigen, with forms such as "ewnigen", "weingen", and "wengien". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "weniger", "winzigen", "wenigsten", 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 wenigen, spelled W-E-N-I-G-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Genitiv Singular Maskulinum der starken Flexion des Adjektivs wenig
- 2Akkusativ Singular Maskulinum der starken Flexion des Adjektivs wenig
- 3Genitiv Singular Neutrum der starken Flexion des Adjektivs wenig
- 4Dativ Plural der starken Flexion des Adjektivs wenig
- 5Genitiv Singular Maskulinum der schwachen Flexion des Adjektivs wenig
- 6Dativ Singular Maskulinum der schwachen Flexion des Adjektivs wenig
- 7Akkusativ Singular Maskulinum der schwachen Flexion des Adjektivs wenig
- 8Genitiv Singular Femininum der schwachen Flexion des Adjektivs wenig
- 9Dativ Singular Femininum der schwachen Flexion des Adjektivs wenig
- 10Genitiv Singular Neutrum der schwachen Flexion des Adjektivs wenig
- 11Dativ Singular Neutrum der schwachen Flexion des Adjektivs wenig
- 12Plural der schwachen Flexion des Adjektivs wenig
- 13Genitiv Singular Maskulinum der gemischten Flexion des Adjektivs wenig
- 14Dativ Singular Maskulinum der gemischten Flexion des Adjektivs wenig
- 15Akkusativ Singular Maskulinum der gemischten Flexion des Adjektivs wenig
- 16Genitiv Singular Femininum der gemischten Flexion des Adjektivs wenig
- 17Dativ Singular Femininum der gemischten Flexion des Adjektivs wenig
- 18Genitiv Singular Neutrum der gemischten Flexion des Adjektivs wenig
- 19Dativ Singular Neutrum der gemischten Flexion des Adjektivs wenig
- 20Plural der gemischten Flexion des Adjektivs wenig
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ewnigen,weingen,wengien,weniegn,wenigenn,weniggen,wenigne,wennigen,wneigen,wwenigen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for wenigen
Misspelling Variants of "wenigen"
Frequency rank: #1,217 in German
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Nearby German words
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