writer
[ˈraɪtəʳ]
The verdict
“writer” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #49,403. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,403
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Schreiber, Schreibender
Corpus desk
Index DE-writer · writer · German
writer · rank #49,403 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,403
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH Wracks
Nearest frequency peer: Wracks (-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 „writer“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Wolgast
Wolgast
50,602 corpus weight
- Wotan
Wotan
50,601 corpus weight
- Wracks
Wracks
50,599 corpus weight
- writer
writer
50,598 corpus weight
- Wunschzettel
Wunschzettel
50,597 corpus weight
- Xanten
Xanten
50,595 corpus weight
What this shows „writer“ 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 | writer |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈraɪtəʳ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #49,403 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „writer“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around writer (IPA [ˈraɪtəʳ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #49,403 among 2,930 “W” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for writer, with forms such as "rwiter", "wirter", and "wrietr". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "written", "Weite", "white", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is writer, spelled W-R-I-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Schreiber, Schreibender
- 2Verfasser, Autor
- 3Schriftsteller
- 4Komponist
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how writer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Writers don't earn a lot of money.
"The event on which this fiction is founded has been supposed, by Dr. Darwin, and some of the physiological writers of Germany, as not of impossible occurrence."
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rwiter
- wirter
- wrietr
- writerr
- writre
- writter
- wrriter
- wrtier
- wwriter
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of writer - 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 "writer", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).