wirf
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#22,573
in German word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
wirf is aGermanverb. It means: 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs werfen Pronounced [vɪʁf]. Often confused with WR and wtf.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wirf |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [vɪʁf] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #22,573 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for wirf is 4 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [vɪʁf]. Corpus data places it at rank #22,573 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs werfen".
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for wirf, with forms such as "iwrf", "wifr", and "wirff". 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, "WR", "wtf", "WWF", 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 wirf, spelled W-I-R-F, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs werfen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: iwrf,wifr,wirff,wirrf,wrif,wwirf
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for wirf
Misspelling Variants of "wirf"
Frequency rank: #22,573 in German
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Nearby German words
Other entries that begin with the letter W in our German index: