wohn
[voːn]
The verdict
“wohn” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #7,257. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,257
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs wohnen
Corpus desk
Index DE-wohn · wohn · German
wohn · rank #7,257 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,257
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH Wortes
Nearest frequency peer: Wortes (+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 „wohn“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Wiederholung
Wiederholung
92,748 corpus weight
- wohn
wohn
92,744 corpus weight
- Wortes
Wortes
92,743 corpus weight
- worüber
worüber
92,742 corpus weight
- wunderschön…
wunderschönen
92,741 corpus weight
- Währung
Währung
92,740 corpus weight
What this shows „wohn“ 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 | wohn |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [voːn] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #7,257 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „wohn“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around wohn (IPA [voːn]), averb. Corpus frequency is #7,257 among 2,930 “W” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for wohn, with forms such as "owhn", "whon", and "wohhn". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "wow", "won", "Wok", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is wohn, spelled W-O-H-N.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs wohnen
- 21. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs wohnen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- owhn
- whon
- wohhn
- wohnn
- wonh
- wwohn
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of wohn - 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 "wohn", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).