verbal
[vɛʁˈbaːl]
The verdict
“verbal” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #18,112. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,112
- frequency rank, German
- 4,163
- “V” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mit Worten, mit Hilfe der mündlichen oder schriftlichen Sprache
Corpus desk
Index DE-verbal · verbal · German
verbal · rank #18,112 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,112
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,163
- PHOTO-FINISH verborgenen
Nearest frequency peer: verborgenen (+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 „verbal“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- unvorstellb…
unvorstellbar
81,892 corpus weight
- Variation
Variation
81,891 corpus weight
- verbal
verbal
81,889 corpus weight
- verborgenen
verborgenen
81,888 corpus weight
- Verkäuferin
Verkäuferin
81,887 corpus weight
- vermarktet
vermarktet
81,886 corpus weight
What this shows „verbal“ 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 | verbal |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [vɛʁˈbaːl] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #18,112 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „verbal“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around verbal (IPA [vɛʁˈbaːl]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #18,112 among 4,163 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for verbal, with forms such as "evrbal", "vebral", and "verabl". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Verl", "viral", "Verlag", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 verbal, spelled V-E-R-B-A-L.
Definition
- 1mit Worten, mit Hilfe der mündlichen oder schriftlichen Sprache
- 2unter Beteiligung eines Verbs, nach Art eines Verbs
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how verbal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Es kam zu einer heftigen verbalen Auseinandersetzung.
„Der weise Hang zu verbaler Sparsamkeit betrifft selbst elementarste Höflichkeitsformeln.“
Antonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- evrbal
- vebral
- verabl
- verball
- verbbal
- verbla
- verrbal
- vrebal
- vverbal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of verbal - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "verbal", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).