wovor
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#25,406
in German word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
wovor is anGermanadv. It means: leitet eine Frage nach a) einer Sache/einem Sachverhalt b) einem Gegenstand (räumlich) ein; beantwortet wird die Frage beispielsweise mit: Davor … Pronounced [voːˈfoːɐ̯]. Often confused with wood and woher.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wovor |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adv |
| IPA | [voːˈfoːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #25,406 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for wovor is 5 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [voːˈfoːɐ̯]. Corpus data places it at rank #25,406 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 wovor, with forms such as "owvor", "woovr", and "wovorr". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "wood", "woher", "wofür", 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 wovor, spelled W-O-V-O-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1leitet eine Frage nach a) einer Sache/einem Sachverhalt b) einem Gegenstand (räumlich) ein; beantwortet wird die Frage beispielsweise mit: Davor …
- 2leitet eine Relativsatz ein, der sich auf a) eine vorgenannte Sache/einen vorgenannten Sachverhalt bezieht, b) einen vorgenannten Gegenstand (räumlich) bezieht
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: owvor,woovr,wovorr,wovro,wovvor,wvoor,wwovor
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for wovor
Misspelling Variants of "wovor"
Frequency rank: #25,406 in German
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Nearby German words
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