werden
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#45
in German word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
werden is aGermanverb. It means: seinen Zustand ändern; einer Änderung unterlaufen Pronounced [ˈveːɐ̯dn̩]. It ranks #45 in German word frequency. Often confused with were and wurde.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | werden |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈveːɐ̯dn̩] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #45 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for werden is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈveːɐ̯dn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #45 in overall German word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for werden, with forms such as "ewrden", "wedren", and "werdden". 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, "were", "wurde", "Werke", 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 werden, spelled W-E-R-D-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1seinen Zustand ändern; einer Änderung unterlaufen
- 2in Zukunft geschehen; in Zukunft sein
- 3Als Hilfsverb: ::[3] zur Futurbildung in Verbindung mit dem Infinitiv ::[4] zum Ausdruck einer Vermutung mit dem Infinitiv ::[5] zur Passivbildung in Verbindung mit dem Partizip II
- 4entstehen
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ewrden,wedren,werdden,werdenn,werdne,weredn,werrden,wreden,wwerden
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for werden
Misspelling Variants of "werden"
Frequency rank: #45 in German
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Nearby German words
Other entries that begin with the letter W in our German index: