wirr
[vɪʁ]
The verdict
“wirr” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #28,022) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #28,022
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - von Verwirrtheit oder Verworrenheit geprägt; ohne (erkennbare) Ordnung; so, dass etwas durcheinander beziehungsweise nicht durchschaubar ist
Corpus desk
Index DE-wirr · wirr · German
wirr · rank #28,022 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,022
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH Windschutzsch…
Nearest frequency peer: Windschutzscheibe (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “wirr”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- weites
weites
71,982 corpus weight
- Wetterberic…
Wetterbericht
71,981 corpus weight
- Windschutzs…
Windschutzscheibe
71,980 corpus weight
- wirr
wirr
71,979 corpus weight
- Wochenmarkt
Wochenmarkt
71,977 corpus weight
- Wulf
Wulf
71,976 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “wirr” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | wirr |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [vɪʁ] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #28,022 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “wirr” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for wirr is neighbouring look-alikes ("WR", "wit", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced [vɪʁ]. Frequency #28,022 among 2,930 “W” headwords. Gloss: "von Verwirrtheit oder Verworrenheit geprägt; ohne (erkennbare) Ordnung; so, dass etwas durcheinander beziehungsweise nicht durchschaubar ist".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for wirr, with forms such as "iwrr", "wrir", and "wwirr". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "WR", "wit", "Wort", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 wirr, spelled W-I-R-R.
Definition
- 1von Verwirrtheit oder Verworrenheit geprägt; ohne (erkennbare) Ordnung; so, dass etwas durcheinander beziehungsweise nicht durchschaubar ist
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how wirr appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Im Anfang schuf Gott Himmel und Erde; die Erde aber war wüst und wirr, Finsternis lag über der Urflut und Gottes Geist schwebte über dem Wasser.“
Mir wird ganz wirr im Kopf.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- iwrr
- wrir
- wwirr
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of wirr - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
What to do next
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- "wirr" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "WR". View pair
- 3 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #28,022 among German headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more German words in the "W" letter cohort. W–Z browse
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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.