worin
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#11,789
in German word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
worin is anGermanadv. It means: in welcher Sache Pronounced [voˈʁɪn]. Often confused with Wort and work.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | worin |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adv |
| IPA | [voˈʁɪn] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #11,789 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for worin is 5 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [voˈʁɪn]. Corpus data places it at rank #11,789 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for worin, with forms such as "owrin", "woirn", and "worinn". 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, "Wort", "work", "Worte", 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 worin, spelled W-O-R-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1in welcher Sache
- 2in welcher genannten Sache
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: owrin,woirn,worinn,worni,worrin,wroin,wworin
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for worin
Misspelling Variants of "worin"
Frequency rank: #11,789 in German
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Nearby German words
Other entries that begin with the letter W in our German index: