Wiesen
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,552
in German word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Wiesen is aGermanname. It means: eine Gemeinde in Unterfranken Pronounced [ˈviːzn̩]. It ranks #5,552 in German word frequency. Often confused with wise and wieso.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Wiesen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Name |
| IPA | [ˈviːzn̩] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #5,552 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Wiesen is 6 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈviːzn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,552 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "eine Gemeinde in Unterfranken".
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for Wiesen, with forms such as "iwesen", "wieesn", and "wiesenn". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "wise", "wieso", "wisse", 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 Wiesen, spelled W-I-E-S-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1eine Gemeinde in Unterfranken
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: iwesen,wieesn,wiesenn,wiesne,wiessen,wiseen,wwiesen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Wiesen
Misspelling Variants of "Wiesen"
Frequency rank: #5,552 in German
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