wiegen
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#12,205
in German word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
wiegen is aGermanverb. It means: das Gewicht von jemandem oder etwas messen, schätzen Pronounced [ˈviːɡn̩]. Often confused with Wien and Wiese.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wiegen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈviːɡn̩] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #12,205 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for wiegen is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈviːɡn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #12,205 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for wiegen, with forms such as "iwegen", "wieegn", and "wiegenn". 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, "Wien", "Wiese", "wiegt", 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 wiegen, spelled W-I-E-G-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1das Gewicht von jemandem oder etwas messen, schätzen
- 2ein bestimmtes Gewicht besitzen oder haben
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: iwegen,wieegn,wiegenn,wieggen,wiegne,wigeen,wwiegen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for wiegen
Misspelling Variants of "wiegen"
Frequency rank: #12,205 in German
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