Whistleblower
The verdict
“Whistleblower” is a moderately-common German word, ranked #26,693 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #26,693
- frequency rank, German
- 13
- letters
- 21
- tracked misspellings
Dominant Wiktionary sense: (männliche^☆) Person, die Missstände oder Gesetzwidrigkeiten (an ihrem Arbeitsplatz) an die Öffentlichkeit bringt; (männliche^☆) Person, die Whistleblowing betreibt
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Whistleblower |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈwɪsl̩ˌblɔʊ̯ɐ] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #26,693 |
| Misspellings tracked | 21 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Whistleblower” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Whistleblower is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈwɪsl̩ˌblɔʊ̯ɐ]. Corpus data places it at rank #26,693 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "(männliche^☆) Person, die Missstände oder Gesetzwidrigkeiten (an ihrem Arbeitsplatz) an die Öffentlichkeit bringt; (männliche^☆) Person, die Whistleblowing betreibt".
Our generated misspelling index lists 21 likely wrong-spelling variants for Whistleblower, with forms such as "hwistleblower", "whhistleblower", and "whislteblower". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 Whistleblower, spelled W-H-I-S-T-L-E-B-L-O-W-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(männliche^☆) Person, die Missstände oder Gesetzwidrigkeiten (an ihrem Arbeitsplatz) an die Öffentlichkeit bringt; (männliche^☆) Person, die Whistleblowing betreibt
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: hwistleblower,whhistleblower,whislteblower,whisstleblower,whistelblower,whistlbelower,whistlebblower,whistlebllower,whistlebloewr,whistleblowerr,whistleblowre,whistleblowwer,whistleblwoer,whistlebolwer,whistlelbower,whistlleblower,whisttleblower,whitsleblower,whsitleblower,wihstleblower,wwhistleblower
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Whistleblower — measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Edit distance from "Whistleblower"
Frequency rank: #26,693 in German
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Using “Whistleblower”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is W-H-I-S-T-L-E-B-L-O-W-E-R — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈwɪsl̩ˌblɔʊ̯ɐ] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Nearby German words
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