verbauen
[fɛɐ̯ˈbaʊ̯ən]
The verdict
“verbauen” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #37,856. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,856
- frequency rank, German
- 4,163
- “V” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Material/Geld für einen Bau verbrauchen
Corpus desk
Index DE-verbauen · verbauen · German
verbauen · rank #37,856 · 11 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,856
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,163
- PHOTO-FINISH verantwortung…
Nearest frequency peer: verantwortungsvolle (-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 „verbauen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- USC
USC
62,148 corpus weight
- verabreichen
verabreichen
62,147 corpus weight
- verantwortu…
verantwortungsvolle
62,146 corpus weight
- verbauen
verbauen
62,145 corpus weight
- verbesserter
verbesserter
62,144 corpus weight
- verbiete
verbiete
62,143 corpus weight
What this shows „verbauen“ 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 | verbauen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [fɛɐ̯ˈbaʊ̯ən] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #37,856 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „verbauen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around verbauen (IPA [fɛɐ̯ˈbaʊ̯ən]), averb. Corpus frequency is #37,856 among 4,163 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for verbauen, with forms such as "evrbauen", "vebrauen", and "verabuen". 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. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Verben", "verbaut", "verboten", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented 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 verbauen, spelled V-E-R-B-A-U-E-N.
Definition
- 1Material/Geld für einen Bau verbrauchen
- 2den Zugang zu etwas (durch bewegliche Gegenstände) (vorübergehend) blockieren
- 3(eine Landschaft) mit Gebäuden bebauen, wobei das Ergebnis als negativ/unästhetisch/störend empfunden wird
- 4schlecht und/oder falsch erstellen/erbauen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how verbauen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Das imprägnierte Holz werden wir auf der Terrasse verbauen.
„Dazu zählen auch der römische Viergötterstein, den man in einer Eckwand der Kirche verbaute, sowie die Inschriftentafeln an einigen Häusern.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- evrbauen
- vebrauen
- verabuen
- verbaeun
- verbauenn
- verbaune
- verbbauen
- verbuaen
- verrbauen
- vrebauen
- vverbauen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of verbauen - 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 "verbauen", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).