verfallen
[fɛɐ̯ˈfalən]
The verdict
“verfallen” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #10,000. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,000
- frequency rank, German
- 4,163
- “V” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mit der Zeit brüchig werden oder kaputtgehen
Corpus desk
Index DE-verfallen · verfallen · German
verfallen · rank #10,000 · 12 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #10,000
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,163
- PHOTO-FINISH verarscht
Nearest frequency peer: verarscht (-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 „verfallen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Unruhen
Unruhen
90,004 corpus weight
- unverzüglich
unverzüglich
90,003 corpus weight
- verarscht
verarscht
90,002 corpus weight
- verfallen
verfallen
90,001 corpus weight
- verfehlt
verfehlt
90,000 corpus weight
- Verkehrs
Verkehrs
89,999 corpus weight
What this shows „verfallen“ 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 | verfallen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [fɛɐ̯ˈfalən] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #10,000 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „verfallen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around verfallen (IPA [fɛɐ̯ˈfalən]), averb. Corpus frequency is #10,000 among 4,163 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for verfallen, with forms such as "evrfallen", "vefrallen", and "verafllen". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "Vorfälle", "verfällt", "Verhalten", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 verfallen, spelled V-E-R-F-A-L-L-E-N.
Definition
- 1mit der Zeit brüchig werden oder kaputtgehen
- 2ungültig werden; seine Gültigkeit verlieren
- 3vor Liebe/Faszination willenlos werden gegenüber jemandem
- 4nur noch an etwas bestimmtes denken; begeistert sein von etwas
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how verfallen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ohne Pflege wird das Schloss irgendwann verfallen.
Guthaben fürs Mobiltelefon verfiel früher, wenn man zu lange nicht auflud; jetzt bekommt man es zurück.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- evrfallen
- vefrallen
- verafllen
- verfaleln
- verfalen
- verfallenn
- verfallne
- verffallen
- verflalen
- verrfallen
- vrefallen
- vverfallen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of verfallen - 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 "verfallen", 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 (12 here; floor ≥5).