WWW
[ˌveːveːˈveː]
The verdict
“WWW” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #14,467) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,467
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ein Hypertext-System, das über das Internet abgerufen werden kann
Corpus desk
Index DE-www · WWW · German
WWW · rank #14,467 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,467
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH wohnten
Nearest frequency peer: wohnten (-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 neighbours of confusable “WWW”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- Widersprüche
Widersprüche
85,537 corpus weight
- Wildnis
Wildnis
85,536 corpus weight
- wohnten
wohnten
85,535 corpus weight
- WWW
WWW
85,534 corpus weight
- wählten
wählten
85,533 corpus weight
- zarte
zarte
85,532 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “WWW” against nearest ranked German headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
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 | WWW |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | [ˌveːveːˈveː] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #14,467 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “WWW” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for WWW is neighbouring look-alikes ("w", "wo", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced [ˌveːveːˈveː]. Frequency #14,467 among 2,930 “W” headwords. Gloss: "ein Hypertext-System, das über das Internet abgerufen werden kann".
No misspelling variants are generated for WWW in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "w", "wo", "WM", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is WWW, spelled W-W-W.
Definition
- 1ein Hypertext-System, das über das Internet abgerufen werden kann
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how WWW appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Er surft ständig im WWW.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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 "WWW", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).