wes
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#22,214
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
wes is aGermanpron. It means: wessen (Genitiv von wer und was) Pronounced [vɛs]. Often confused with wo and WM.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wes |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Pron |
| IPA | [vɛs] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #22,214 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for wes is 3 letters long, classified as apron, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [vɛs]. Corpus data places it at rank #22,214 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "wessen (Genitiv von wer und was)".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for wes in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "wo", "WM", "wi", 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 wes, spelled W-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1wessen (Genitiv von wer und was)
Synonyms
Frequency rank: #22,214 in German
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