wichtig

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for wichtig is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈvɪçtɪç]. Corpus data places it at rank #447 in overall German word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "wesentlich sein, von Gewicht, Bedeutung sein; Gewicht, Bedeutung habend".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for wichtig, with forms such as "iwchtig", "wcihtig", and "wicchtig". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "wichtige", "wichtiger", "wichtigen", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 wichtig, spelled W-I-C-H-T-I-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.