Wette
[ˈvɛtə]
The verdict
“Wette” is a regularly-used German word, ranked #4,847 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #4,847
- frequency rank, German
- 5
- letters
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - eine zwischen zwei oder mehr Personen getroffene Verabredung, wonach bei Eintreten oder Nichteintreten eines Ereignisses oder bei Nachweis der Gültigkeit oder Nichtgültigkeit einer Behauptung ein v...
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 | Wette |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈvɛtə] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #4,847 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Wette” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Wette is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈvɛtə]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,847 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "eine zwischen zwei oder mehr Personen getroffene Verabredung, wonach bei Eintreten oder Nichteintreten eines Ereignisses oder bei Nachweis der Gültigkeit oder Nichtgültigkeit einer Behauptung ein v...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for Wette, with forms such as "ewtte", "wete", and "wetet". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Worte", "white", "Witze", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Wette, spelled W-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1eine zwischen zwei oder mehr Personen getroffene Verabredung, wonach bei Eintreten oder Nichteintreten eines Ereignisses oder bei Nachweis der Gültigkeit oder Nichtgültigkeit einer Behauptung ein vereinbarter Einsatz zwischen den Personen wechselt
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ewtte,wete,wetet,wtete,wwette
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Wette - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Using “Wette”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is W-E-T-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈvɛtə] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Worte” - see the side-by-side comparison. Wette vs Worte
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.