Wut
[vuːt]
The verdict
“Wut” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #4,174) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #4,174
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - starke Gemütserregung, ein Gefühl großen Ärgers, oft in Verbindung mit aggressivem Verhalten
Corpus desk
Index DE-wut · Wut · German
Wut · rank #4,174 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,174
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH Wurzeln
Nearest frequency peer: Wurzeln (-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 “Wut”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- wetten
wetten
95,830 corpus weight
- wonach
wonach
95,829 corpus weight
- Wurzeln
Wurzeln
95,828 corpus weight
- Wut
Wut
95,827 corpus weight
- wüsste
wüsste
95,826 corpus weight
- Zinsen
Zinsen
95,825 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Wut” 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 | Wut |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [vuːt] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #4,174 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Wut” sits in German frequency
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Wut is neighbouring look-alikes ("WWW", "WWF", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [vuːt]. Frequency #4,174 among 2,930 “W” headwords. Gloss: "starke Gemütserregung, ein Gefühl großen Ärgers, oft in Verbindung mit aggressivem Verhalten".
Zero misspellings are on record for Wut in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "WWW", "WWF", "wüten", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is Wut, spelled W-U-T.
Definition
- 1starke Gemütserregung, ein Gefühl großen Ärgers, oft in Verbindung mit aggressivem Verhalten
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Wut appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Voller Wut schrie sie ihn an.
„Zdenek sprach stockend und voller Wut und riß Grasbüschel aus.“
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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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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.