Werke
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,530
in German word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Werke is aGermannoun. It means: Variante für den Dativ Singular des Substantivs Werk Pronounced [ˈvɛʁkə]. It ranks #1,530 in German word frequency. Often confused with Wert and work.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Werke |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈvɛʁkə] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,530 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Werke is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈvɛʁkə]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,530 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 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 Werke, with forms such as "ewrke", "wekre", and "werek". 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, "Wert", "work", "Werl", 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 Werke, spelled W-E-R-K-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Variante für den Dativ Singular des Substantivs Werk
- 2Nominativ Plural des Substantivs Werk
- 3Genitiv Plural des Substantivs Werk
- 4Akkusativ Plural des Substantivs Werk
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ewrke,wekre,werek,werkke,werrke,wreke,wwerke
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Werke
Misspelling Variants of "Werke"
Frequency rank: #1,530 in German
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Nearby German words
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