wit
[wɪt]
The verdict
“wit” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #45,706) as an adverb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #45,706
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - von weißer Farbe
Corpus desk
Index DE-wit · wit · German
wit · rank #45,706 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,706
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH wirres
Nearest frequency peer: wirres (-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 „wit“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Willow
Willow
54,298 corpus weight
- wirre
wirre
54,297 corpus weight
- wirres
wirres
54,296 corpus weight
- wit
wit
54,295 corpus weight
- Wunstorf
Wunstorf
54,293 corpus weight
- währenden
währenden
54,292 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „wit“ 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 | wit |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | [wɪt] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #45,706 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „wit“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for wit is neighbouring look-alikes ("wo", "WM", …), not just typos; it is anadverb pronounced [wɪt]. Frequency #45,706 among 2,930 “W” headwords. Gloss: "von weißer Farbe".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for wit, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "wo", "WM", "Wu", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is wit, spelled W-I-T.
Definition
- 1von weißer Farbe
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how wit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Krijgen we een witte kerst in 2013?
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).