Wilna
[ˈvɪlna]
The verdict
“Wilna” is uncommon German (frequency #71,003 among 38,697 “W” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,003
- frequency rank, German
- 38,697
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Hauptstadt von Litauen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Wilna |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈvɪlna] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #71,003 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Wilna” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Wilna is uncommon German at frequency #71,003 among 38,697 “W” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [ˈvɪlna]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Hauptstadt von Litauen".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Wilna, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Wilna, spelled W-I-L-N-A.
Definition
- 1Hauptstadt von Litauen
Synonyms
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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Using “Wilna”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is W-I-L-N-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.