Verbrecher
[fɛɐ̯ˈbʁɛçɐ]
The verdict
“Verbrecher” has 16 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #6,479. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,479
- frequency rank, German
- 4,163
- “V” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - jemand, der [ein] Verbrechen begeht oder begangen hat
Corpus desk
Index DE-verbrecher · Verbrecher · German
Verbrecher · rank #6,479 · 16 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,479
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,163
- PHOTO-FINISH Venedig
Nearest frequency peer: Venedig (-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 „Verbrecher“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- unglücklich
unglücklich
93,525 corpus weight
- Unterkunft
Unterkunft
93,524 corpus weight
- Venedig
Venedig
93,523 corpus weight
- Verbrecher
Verbrecher
93,522 corpus weight
- verhält
verhält
93,521 corpus weight
- verkaufe
verkaufe
93,520 corpus weight
What this shows „Verbrecher“ 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 | Verbrecher |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [fɛɐ̯ˈbʁɛçɐ] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #6,479 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Verbrecher“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around Verbrecher (IPA [fɛɐ̯ˈbʁɛçɐ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,479 among 4,163 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "jemand, der [ein] Verbrechen begeht oder begangen hat".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for Verbrecher, with forms such as "evrbrecher", "vebrrecher", and "verbbrecher". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "verbrochen", "Verbrechern", "verbrechen", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Verbrecher, spelled V-E-R-B-R-E-C-H-E-R.
Definition
- 1jemand, der [ein] Verbrechen begeht oder begangen hat
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Verbrecher appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dieser Verbrecher ist nun schon mehrmals aus dem Gefängnis ausgebrochen.
„Alle freien Männer - Bauern, Handwerker, Kaufleute - dürfen an den Volksversammlungen teilnehmen, den Thingen, auf denen etwa über Verbrecher geurteilt wird.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- evrbrecher
- vebrrecher
- verbbrecher
- verbercher
- verbrceher
- verbreccher
- verbrecehr
- verbrecherr
- verbrechher
- verbrechre
- verbrehcer
- verbrrecher
- verrbecher
- verrbrecher
- vrebrecher
- vverbrecher
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Verbrecher - 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
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Same letter count
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Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).