verächtlich
[fɛɐ̯ˈʔɛçtlɪç]
The verdict
“verächtlich” has 18 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #31,862. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,862
- frequency rank, German
- 4,163
- “V” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - jemanden missachtend, verachtend; keinen Respekt einem anderen gegenüber zeigend; Verachtung hegend
Corpus desk
Index DE-verachtlich · verächtlich · German
verächtlich · rank #31,862 · 18 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,862
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,163
- PHOTO-FINISH verschlimmert
Nearest frequency peer: verschlimmert (-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 „verächtlich“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- versah
versah
68,142 corpus weight
- Verschiebun…
Verschiebungen
68,141 corpus weight
- verschlimme…
verschlimmert
68,140 corpus weight
- verächtlich
verächtlich
68,139 corpus weight
- vesper
vesper
68,138 corpus weight
- Veteran
Veteran
68,137 corpus weight
What this shows „verächtlich“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | verächtlich |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [fɛɐ̯ˈʔɛçtlɪç] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #31,862 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „verächtlich“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around verächtlich (IPA [fɛɐ̯ˈʔɛçtlɪç]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #31,862 among 4,163 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "jemanden missachtend, verachtend; keinen Respekt einem anderen gegenüber zeigend; Verachtung hegend".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for verächtlich, with forms such as "evrächtlich", "vercähtlich", and "verrächtlich". 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. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is verächtlich, spelled V-E-R-Ä-C-H-T-L-I-C-H.
Definition
- 1jemanden missachtend, verachtend; keinen Respekt einem anderen gegenüber zeigend; Verachtung hegend
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how verächtlich appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Er machte dazu nur eine verächtliche Bemerkung.
„Sollte der böse Geist zurückkehren, sollte er wieder verächtlich werden – verächtlich, wie er gewesen war?“
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- evrächtlich
- vercähtlich
- verrächtlich
- veräcchtlich
- verächhtlich
- verächltich
- verächtilch
- verächtlcih
- verächtlicch
- verächtlichh
- verächtlihc
- verächtllich
- verächttlich
- veräcthlich
- verähctlich
- veärchtlich
- vreächtlich
- vverächtlich
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of verächtlich - 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 "verächtlich", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).