# Wittgenstein

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #38,692

## Definitions
1. A surname from German.
2. Ludwig Wittgenstein, an Austrian-born twentieth-century philosopher noted for the idea of "family resemblance" as that which individual objects of a sense of a term have in common.

## Etymology
Borrowed from German Wittgenstein.

## Common misspellings (17)
`iwttgenstein`, `witgenstein`, `witgtenstein`, `wittegnstein`, `wittgennstein`, `wittgensetin`, `wittgensstein`, `wittgensteinn`, `wittgensteni`, `wittgenstien`, `wittgensttein`, `wittgentsein`, `wittgesntein`, `wittggenstein`, `wittgnestein`, `wtitgenstein`, `wwittgenstein`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-09-03.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/wittgenstein