witte
[ˈvɪtə]
The verdict
“witte” has 5 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #26,252. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,252
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Kenntnis haben, sich über etwas Wahres sicher sein; wissen
Corpus desk
Index DE-witte · witte · German
witte · rank #26,252 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,252
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH wirkungsvoll
Nearest frequency peer: wirkungsvoll (-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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „witte“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- wirkungslos
wirkungslos
73,751 corpus weight
- wirkungsvoll
wirkungsvoll
73,750 corpus weight
- witte
witte
73,749 corpus weight
- wohlhabende
wohlhabende
73,748 corpus weight
- wrong
wrong
73,747 corpus weight
- wunderte
wunderte
73,746 corpus weight
What this shows „witte“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
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 | witte |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈvɪtə] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #26,252 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „witte“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around witte (IPA [ˈvɪtə]), averb. Corpus frequency is #26,252 among 2,930 “W” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Kenntnis haben, sich über etwas Wahres sicher sein; wissen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for witte, with forms such as "iwtte", "wite", and "witet". 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, "Witz", "Worte", "Witze", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is witte, spelled W-I-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Kenntnis haben, sich über etwas Wahres sicher sein; wissen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- iwtte
- wite
- witet
- wtite
- wwitte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of witte - 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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "witte", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).