pervers
[pɛʁˈvɛʁs]
The verdict
“pervers” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #17,093. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,093
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (oft in sexuellem Zusammenhang) entartet, verkehrt, nicht den (moralischen) Konventionen entsprechend
Corpus desk
Index DE-pervers · pervers · German
pervers · rank #17,093 · 11 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,093
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH Pd
Nearest frequency peer: Pd (-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 „pervers“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Parlamentar…
Parlamentarier
82,911 corpus weight
- pasta
pasta
82,910 corpus weight
- Pd
Pd
82,909 corpus weight
- pervers
pervers
82,908 corpus weight
- Pfeile
Pfeile
82,906 corpus weight
- Photovoltaik
Photovoltaik
82,905 corpus weight
What this shows „pervers“ 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 | pervers |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [pɛʁˈvɛʁs] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #17,093 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „pervers“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around pervers (IPA [pɛʁˈvɛʁs]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #17,093 among 3,409 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for pervers, with forms such as "eprvers", "perevrs", and "perrvers". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "Peters", "perverse", "perversen", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is pervers, spelled P-E-R-V-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1(oft in sexuellem Zusammenhang) entartet, verkehrt, nicht den (moralischen) Konventionen entsprechend
- 2nicht logisch folgerichtig zueinanderpassend, verkehrt, widersinnig
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pervers appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Also ich finde es pervers, wenn Menschen Sex mit Tieren haben!
Ich finde Pornovideos wirklich pervers.
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eprvers
- perevrs
- perrvers
- perverrs
- perverss
- pervesr
- pervres
- pervvers
- pevrers
- ppervers
- prevers
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pervers - 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 "pervers", 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).