wettern
[ˈvɛtɐn]
The verdict
“wettern” is uncommon German (frequency #57,570 among 2,930 “W” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,570
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - unbestimmte Wetterereignisse (oft Unwetter) geben
Corpus desk
Index DE-wettern · wettern · German
wettern · rank #57,570 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,570
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH Wesseling
Nearest frequency peer: Wesseling (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „wettern“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Weltregieru…
Weltregierung
42,435 corpus weight
- Wesseling
Wesseling
42,432 corpus weight
- wettern
wettern
42,431 corpus weight
- wichtigem
wichtigem
42,430 corpus weight
- widert
widert
42,428 corpus weight
- wieweit
wieweit
42,427 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „wettern“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wettern |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈvɛtɐn] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #57,570 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „wettern“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
wettern is uncommon German at frequency #57,570 among 2,930 “W” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈvɛtɐn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for wettern, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 wettern, spelled W-E-T-T-E-R-N.
Definition
- 1unbestimmte Wetterereignisse (oft Unwetter) geben
- 2auf etwas fluchen oder schimpfen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how wettern appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Gestern wetterte es schon wieder wie im Herbst.
Seit Alma Oma ist, wettert sie nur noch über alles mögliche.
This word in other languages
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
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