wie
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#30
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
wie is anGermanadv. It means: Als modales Interrogativadverb erfragt „wie“ ein Adverb beziehungsweise ein Adverbiale und damit die Art und Weise. Es steht stets an der Spitze eines Hauptsatzes oder eines Interrogativnebensatzes. Pronounced [viː]. It ranks #30 in German word frequency. Often confused with wo and WM.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wie |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adv |
| IPA | [viː] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #30 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for wie is 3 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [viː]. Corpus data places it at rank #30 in overall German word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for wie in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "wo", "WM", "Wu", 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 wie, spelled W-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Als modales Interrogativadverb erfragt „wie“ ein Adverb beziehungsweise ein Adverbiale und damit die Art und Weise. Es steht stets an der Spitze eines Hauptsatzes oder eines Interrogativnebensatzes.
- 2Wird „wie“ einem Adjektiv oder Adverb vorangestellt, erfragt es den jeweiligen Grad, den etwas hat beziehungsweise in dem etwas ist oder geschieht.
- 3in Ausrufen des Bedauerns, Erstaunens, der Freude
- 4als relativer Anschluss
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #30 in German
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Other entries that begin with the letter W in our German index: