wire
[waɪə]
The verdict
“wire” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #33,395) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #33,395
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Draht, Anschlusskabel
Corpus desk
Index DE-wire · wire · German
wire · rank #33,395 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,395
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH Weltmacht
Nearest frequency peer: Weltmacht (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „wire“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- wegzunehmen
wegzunehmen
66,610 corpus weight
- Weilchen
Weilchen
66,609 corpus weight
- Weltmacht
Weltmacht
66,607 corpus weight
- wire
wire
66,606 corpus weight
- Zeitraums
Zeitraums
66,604 corpus weight
- zerstöre
zerstöre
66,603 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „wire“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wire |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [waɪə] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #33,395 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „wire“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for wire is neighbouring look-alikes ("WR", "wit", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [waɪə]. Frequency #33,395 among 2,930 “W” headwords. Gloss: "Draht, Anschlusskabel".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for wire, with forms such as "iwre", "wier", and "wrie". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "WR", "wit", "Wort", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 wire, spelled W-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Draht, Anschlusskabel
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how wire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Do you have a pair of scissors to cut this wire?
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- iwre
- wier
- wrie
- wwire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of wire - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).