vanish
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The verdict
“vanish” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - den Wahrnehmungsbereich (plötzlich) verlassen, verschwinden
Corpus desk
Index DE-vanish · vanish · German
vanish · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "V" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vanish |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „vanish“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
vanish is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for vanish, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is vanish, spelled V-A-N-I-S-H.
Definition
- 1den Wahrnehmungsbereich (plötzlich) verlassen, verschwinden
- 2aufhören zu existieren, verschwinden
- 3den Wert Null annehmen, verschwinden
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vanish appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The smile vanishes from her face. The men vanished into the fog.
Her courage vanished. At the end of the Cretaceous period, the dinosaurs vanished from the Earth.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.