Verengung
[fɛɐ̯ˈʔɛŋʊŋ]
The verdict
“Verengung” has 14 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #47,083. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,083
- frequency rank, German
- 4,163
- “V” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - der Vorgang des Sichverengens
Corpus desk
Index DE-verengung · Verengung · German
Verengung · rank #47,083 · 14 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,083
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,163
- PHOTO-FINISH verdutzt
Nearest frequency peer: verdutzt (-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 „Verengung“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Verdopplung
Verdopplung
52,921 corpus weight
- verdunkelt
verdunkelt
52,920 corpus weight
- verdutzt
verdutzt
52,919 corpus weight
- Verengung
Verengung
52,918 corpus weight
- verfickt
verfickt
52,917 corpus weight
- Vergaben
Vergaben
52,916 corpus weight
What this shows „Verengung“ 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 | Verengung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [fɛɐ̯ˈʔɛŋʊŋ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #47,083 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Verengung“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around Verengung (IPA [fɛɐ̯ˈʔɛŋʊŋ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,083 among 4,163 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for Verengung, with forms such as "evrengung", "veerngung", and "veregnung". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "Verfügung", "Verlegung", "Vererbung", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Verengung, spelled V-E-R-E-N-G-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1der Vorgang des Sichverengens
- 2eine verengte Stelle oder Ähnliches
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Verengung appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Während eine maximal weitgestellte Pupille immer rund ist, kann sich die Pupillenform bei Engstellung zwischen den einzelnen Arten unterscheiden. Bei einigen Arten (wie dem Menschen oder Hunden) verläuft der Schließmuskel der Pupille zirkulär, sodass auch die verengte Pupille rund ist. Bei einer Reihe anderer Tiere verläuft dieser Muskel hingegen scheren…
„Die Ursache einer Ischämie ist meist eine Veränderung von Blutgefäßen in Form einer Verengung oder eines Verschlusses. […] Die Verengung nennt man Stenose, beispielsweise bei Atherosklerose und Arterieller Verschlusskrankheit (AVK).“
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- evrengung
- veerngung
- veregnung
- verenggung
- verengnug
- verengugn
- verengungg
- verengunng
- verenngung
- verenugng
- vernegung
- verrengung
- vreengung
- vverengung
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Verengung - 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 "Verengung", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
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Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).