wesentlich
[ˈveːzn̩tlɪç]
The verdict
“wesentlich” has 16 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #1,578. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,578
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - den größten Anteil ausmachend
Corpus desk
Index DE-wesentlich · wesentlich · German
wesentlich · rank #1,578 · 16 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,578
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH weiteres
Nearest frequency peer: weiteres (-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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „wesentlich“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Verantwortu…
Verantwortung
98,426 corpus weight
- Wege
Wege
98,425 corpus weight
- weiteres
weiteres
98,424 corpus weight
- wesentlich
wesentlich
98,423 corpus weight
- Wunsch
Wunsch
98,422 corpus weight
- Andreas
Andreas
98,421 corpus weight
What this shows „wesentlich“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im 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 | wesentlich |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈveːzn̩tlɪç] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #1,578 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „wesentlich“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around wesentlich (IPA [ˈveːzn̩tlɪç]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #1,578 among 2,930 “W” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for wesentlich, with forms such as "ewsentlich", "weesntlich", and "wesenltich". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "westlich", "wesentliche", "wissentlich", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 wesentlich, spelled W-E-S-E-N-T-L-I-C-H.
Definition
- 1den größten Anteil ausmachend
- 2den wirklichen Kern, das Wesen (einer Sache) betreffend
- 3sehr, um ein Vielfaches des Angesprochenen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how wesentlich appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Er hatte einen wesentlichen Anteil daran, dass das Abkommen jetzt unterschriftsreif ist.
Die wesentlichen Änderungen in der neuen Version sind folgende:…
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ewsentlich
- weesntlich
- wesenltich
- wesenntlich
- wesentilch
- wesentlcih
- wesentlicch
- wesentlichh
- wesentlihc
- wesentllich
- wesenttlich
- wesetnlich
- wesnetlich
- wessentlich
- wseentlich
- wwesentlich
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of wesentlich - 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 "wesentlich", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).