Wirt
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,301
in German word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Wirt is aGermannoun. It means: jemand, der gegebenenfalls in einer Person privat oder kommerziell Gäste bewirtet oder ein Gastgeber, der vermietet und/oder beherbergt; ein Lokalinhaber, ein Wirtshausbesitzer und/oder Ausschenker... Pronounced [vɪʁt]. It ranks #9,301 in German word frequency. Often confused with WR and Wut.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Wirt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [vɪʁt] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #9,301 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Wirt is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [vɪʁt]. Corpus data places it at rank #9,301 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for Wirt, with forms such as "iwrt", "wirrt", and "wirtt". 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", "Wut", "wit", 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 Wirt, spelled W-I-R-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1jemand, der gegebenenfalls in einer Person privat oder kommerziell Gäste bewirtet oder ein Gastgeber, der vermietet und/oder beherbergt; ein Lokalinhaber, ein Wirtshausbesitzer und/oder Ausschenker in einem Lokal
- 2eine Pflanze oder ein Tier mit Parasitenbefall
- 3eine Person, die als Anbieter, Vermieter von Wohnraum auftritt
- 4ein Empfänger eines Transplantats
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: iwrt,wirrt,wirtt,witr,writ,wwirt
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Wirt
Misspelling Variants of "Wirt"
Frequency rank: #9,301 in German
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