ver
[ˈveːʁ]
The verdict
“ver” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #7,543) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #7,543
- frequency rank, German
- 4,163
- “V” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Frühling
Corpus desk
Index DE-ver · ver · German
ver · rank #7,543 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,543
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,163
- PHOTO-FINISH URL
Nearest frequency peer: URL (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „ver“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Umstellung
Umstellung
92,461 corpus weight
- unzählige
unzählige
92,460 corpus weight
- URL
URL
92,459 corpus weight
- ver
ver
92,458 corpus weight
- vergiss
vergiss
92,457 corpus weight
- Verletzten
Verletzten
92,456 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „ver“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
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 | ver |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈveːʁ] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #7,543 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „ver“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ver is neighbouring look-alikes ("VW", "vi", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈveːʁ]. Frequency #7,543 among 4,163 “V” headwords. Gloss: "Frühling".
Zero misspellings are on record for ver in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "VW", "vi", "VR", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is ver, spelled V-E-R.
Definition
- 1Frühling
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ver appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Iuppiter antiqui contraxit tempora veris perque hiemes aestusque et inaequalis autumnos et breve ver spatiis exegit quattuor annum. (Ovid: Metamorphosen I,116-118)
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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