wiewohl
[viːˈvoːl]
The verdict
“wiewohl” is uncommon German (frequency #55,037 among 2,930 “W” headwords), classed as a conjunction. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,037
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - obwohl, obzwar, wenngleich; wenn auch, obschon
Corpus desk
Index DE-wiewohl · wiewohl · German
wiewohl · rank #55,037 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,037
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH Windböen
Nearest frequency peer: Windböen (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „wiewohl“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Wertschöpfu…
Wertschöpfungskette
44,968 corpus weight
- wiewohl
wiewohl
44,964 corpus weight
- Windböen
Windböen
44,963 corpus weight
- Windungen
Windungen
44,962 corpus weight
- wired
wired
44,961 corpus weight
- wirkendes
wirkendes
44,960 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „wiewohl“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wiewohl |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Conjunction |
| IPA | [viːˈvoːl] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #55,037 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „wiewohl“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
wiewohl is uncommon German at frequency #55,037 among 2,930 “W” headwords, classed as aconjunction, transcribed [viːˈvoːl]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "obwohl, obzwar, wenngleich; wenn auch, obschon".
wiewohl has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is wiewohl, spelled W-I-E-W-O-H-L.
Definition
- 1obwohl, obzwar, wenngleich; wenn auch, obschon
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how wiewohl appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Wiewohl die Handlungen bei dieser ersten Zusammenkunft vielleicht von weniger Gewicht sind als in der zweiten, so kann man sich doch nicht eines Gefühls von Entsetzen und sehr peinlicher Gedanken erwehren, wenn man hört, daß die kleine Hortense dabei zu dem Frevler gesagt haben will: ‚Du beleidigst ja den lieben Gott.‘“
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This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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