verdrängen
[fɛɐ̯ˈdʁɛŋən]
The verdict
“verdrängen” has 16 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #13,721. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,721
- frequency rank, German
- 4,163
- “V” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - jemanden oder etwas von seiner Stelle drängen oder schieben; den Platz von etwas einnehmen
Corpus desk
Index DE-verdrangen · verdrängen · German
verdrängen · rank #13,721 · 16 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,721
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,163
- PHOTO-FINISH vage
Nearest frequency peer: vage (-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 „verdrängen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- unterteilt
unterteilt
86,283 corpus weight
- unterzeichn…
unterzeichnen
86,282 corpus weight
- vage
vage
86,281 corpus weight
- verdrängen
verdrängen
86,280 corpus weight
- Verhaltensw…
Verhaltensweisen
86,279 corpus weight
- verhungern
verhungern
86,278 corpus weight
What this shows „verdrängen“ 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 | verdrängen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [fɛɐ̯ˈdʁɛŋən] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #13,721 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „verdrängen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around verdrängen (IPA [fɛɐ̯ˈdʁɛŋən]), averb. Corpus frequency is #13,721 among 4,163 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for verdrängen, with forms such as "evrdrängen", "vedrrängen", and "verddrängen". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "Verlangen", "vergangen", "verdrängt", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is verdrängen, spelled V-E-R-D-R-Ä-N-G-E-N.
Definition
- 1jemanden oder etwas von seiner Stelle drängen oder schieben; den Platz von etwas einnehmen
- 2etwas aus seinem Bewusstsein ausschließen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how verdrängen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Archimedisches Prinzip: Die Auftriebskraft eines Körpers in einem Medium ist genauso groß wie die Gewichtskraft des vom Körper verdrängten Mediums.
„In den 1970er Jahren verdrängten die aufkommenden Zentralheizungen die bis dahin üblichen Ofenheizungen.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- evrdrängen
- vedrrängen
- verddrängen
- verdrnägen
- verdrrängen
- verdrägnen
- verdränegn
- verdrängenn
- verdränggen
- verdrängne
- verdränngen
- verdärngen
- verrdrängen
- verrdängen
- vredrängen
- vverdrängen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of verdrängen - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).