WS
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The verdict
“WS” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #21,852) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #21,852
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Wintersemester
Corpus desk
Index DE-ws · WS · German
WS · rank #21,852 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,852
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH Wohnhäuser
Nearest frequency peer: Wohnhäuser (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “WS”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Wernigerode
Wernigerode
78,154 corpus weight
- widerrufen
widerrufen
78,153 corpus weight
- Wohnhäuser
Wohnhäuser
78,150 corpus weight
- WS
WS
78,149 corpus weight
- yourself
yourself
78,147 corpus weight
- zach
zach
78,146 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “WS” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | WS |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #21,852 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “WS” sits in German frequency
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for WS is neighbouring look-alikes ("Wu", "Wut", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced […]. Frequency #21,852 among 2,930 “W” headwords. Gloss: "Wintersemester".
No misspelling variants are generated for WS in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Wu", "Wut", "wtf", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is WS, spelled W-S.
Definition
- 1Wintersemester
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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- "WS" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "Wu". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #21,852 among German headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.