Wenzel
[ˈvɛnt͡sl̩]
The verdict
“Wenzel” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #15,524. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,524
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - deutscher Familienname
Corpus desk
Index DE-wenzel · Wenzel · German
Wenzel · rank #15,524 · 9 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,524
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH Wels
Nearest frequency peer: Wels (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “Wenzel”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Wahn
Wahn
84,480 corpus weight
- Wasserfall
Wasserfall
84,479 corpus weight
- Wels
Wels
84,478 corpus weight
- Wenzel
Wenzel
84,477 corpus weight
- wertlos
wertlos
84,476 corpus weight
- Westdeutsch…
Westdeutschland
84,475 corpus weight
What this shows “Wenzel” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the 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 | Wenzel |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈvɛnt͡sl̩] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #15,524 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “Wenzel” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Wenzel (IPA [ˈvɛnt͡sl̩]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #15,524 among 2,930 “W” headwords. Dominant gloss: "deutscher Familienname".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Wenzel, with forms such as "ewnzel", "wenezl", and "wennzel". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "Wesel", "Winkel", "Wurzel", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Wenzel, spelled W-E-N-Z-E-L.
Definition
- 1deutscher Familienname
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ewnzel
- wenezl
- wennzel
- wenzell
- wenzle
- wenzzel
- weznel
- wnezel
- wwenzel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Wenzel - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "Wenzel", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).