veni

verb

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The verdict

“veni” is uncommon German (frequency #81,097 among 49,639 “V” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#81,097
frequency rank, German
49,639
“V” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - kommen

Key facts for veni
PropertyValue
Headwordveni
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
Letters4
Frequency rank#81,097
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “veni” sits in German frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). veni lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

veni is uncommon German at frequency #81,097 among 49,639 “V” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "kommen".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for veni, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is veni, spelled V-E-N-I.

Definition

  1. 1
    kommen

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "veni"?
"veni" is spelled V-E-N-I.
What does "veni" mean?
As a verb, "veni" means: kommen
What language does "veni" come from?
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Using “veni”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct German spelling is V-E-N-I - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words

Other uncommon German words near this rank

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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list