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The verdict
“writing” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #32,876. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,876
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs write
Corpus desk
Index DE-writing · writing · German
writing · rank #32,876 · 11 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,876
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH Wolkenkratzer
Nearest frequency peer: Wolkenkratzer (-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 „writing“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- winke
winke
67,128 corpus weight
- Wochenstund…
Wochenstunden
67,127 corpus weight
- Wolkenkratz…
Wolkenkratzer
67,126 corpus weight
- writing
writing
67,125 corpus weight
- zauberhaft
zauberhaft
67,123 corpus weight
- Zebrastreif…
Zebrastreifen
67,122 corpus weight
What this shows „writing“ 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 | writing |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #32,876 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „writing“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around writing (IPA […]), averb. Corpus frequency is #32,876 among 2,930 “W” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs write".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for writing, with forms such as "rwiting", "wirting", and "wriitng". 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, "your", "wtf", "zero", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is writing, spelled W-R-I-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs write
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rwiting
- wirting
- wriitng
- writign
- writingg
- writinng
- writnig
- writting
- wrriting
- wrtiing
- wwriting
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of writing - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "writing", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).