verdrehen
[fɛɐ̯ˈdʁeːən]
The verdict
“verdrehen” has 14 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #25,376. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,376
- frequency rank, German
- 4,163
- “V” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - die Ausrichtung von etwas ändern
Corpus desk
Index DE-verdrehen · verdrehen · German
verdrehen · rank #25,376 · 14 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,376
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,163
- PHOTO-FINISH verbrannten
Nearest frequency peer: verbrannten (-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 „verdrehen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- verbalen
verbalen
74,628 corpus weight
- verblüffend
verblüffend
74,627 corpus weight
- verbrannten
verbrannten
74,626 corpus weight
- verdrehen
verdrehen
74,625 corpus weight
- Verkaufs
Verkaufs
74,623 corpus weight
- verlagern
verlagern
74,622 corpus weight
What this shows „verdrehen“ 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 | verdrehen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [fɛɐ̯ˈdʁeːən] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #25,376 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „verdrehen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around verdrehen (IPA [fɛɐ̯ˈdʁeːən]), averb. Corpus frequency is #25,376 among 4,163 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for verdrehen, with forms such as "evrdrehen", "vedrrehen", and "verddrehen". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "versehen", "vergehen", "verdreht", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 verdrehen, spelled V-E-R-D-R-E-H-E-N.
Definition
- 1die Ausrichtung von etwas ändern
- 2die Aussage von etwas verfälschen
- 3Filmmaterial verbrauchen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how verdrehen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Plötzlich muss Müller absteigen, die Schulter hatte sich etwas verdreht.“
„US-Präsident Donald Trump verbiegt wahllos wichtige Fakten und verdreht die Realität.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- evrdrehen
- vedrrehen
- verddrehen
- verderhen
- verdreehn
- verdrehenn
- verdrehhen
- verdrehne
- verdrheen
- verdrrehen
- verrdehen
- verrdrehen
- vredrehen
- vverdrehen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of verdrehen - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "verdrehen", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).