wes
[vɛs]
The verdict
“wes” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #22,214) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #22,214
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - wessen (Genitiv von wer und was)
Corpus desk
Index DE-wes · wes · German
wes · rank #22,214 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,214
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH Weltrangliste
Nearest frequency peer: Weltrangliste (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „wes“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- wehrte
wehrte
77,790 corpus weight
- weiterführe…
weiterführenden
77,789 corpus weight
- Weltranglis…
Weltrangliste
77,788 corpus weight
- wes
wes
77,787 corpus weight
- Wettkämpfen
Wettkämpfen
77,786 corpus weight
- wichtigster
wichtigster
77,785 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „wes“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
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 | wes |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | [vɛs] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #22,214 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „wes“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for wes is neighbouring look-alikes ("wo", "WM", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced [vɛs]. Frequency #22,214 among 2,930 “W” headwords. Gloss: "wessen (Genitiv von wer und was)".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for wes, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "wo", "WM", "wi", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is wes, spelled W-E-S.
Definition
- 1wessen (Genitiv von wer und was)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how wes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Schon die Wahl des Wagens verrät meist, wes Geistes Kind der Fahrer ist.“
„Alle Freundschaften politisch engagierter Menschen fingen damals so an. Zuallererst wurde abgetastet, wes Geistes Kind der andere sei.“
Synonyms
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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