verfälschen
[fɛɐ̯ˈfɛlʃn̩]
The verdict
“verfälschen” is uncommon German (frequency #52,533 among 4,163 “V” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,533
- frequency rank, German
- 4,163
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - hinsichtlich des Ergebnisses oder der Qualität verändern
Corpus desk
Index DE-verfalschen · verfälschen · German
verfälschen · rank #52,533 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,533
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,163
- PHOTO-FINISH Verfolgungen
Nearest frequency peer: Verfolgungen (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „verfälschen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- verbrenne
verbrenne
47,471 corpus weight
- Verbrenner
Verbrenner
47,470 corpus weight
- Verfolgungen
Verfolgungen
47,469 corpus weight
- verfälschen
verfälschen
47,468 corpus weight
- vergiftete
vergiftete
47,467 corpus weight
- vergraulen
vergraulen
47,466 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „verfälschen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | verfälschen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [fɛɐ̯ˈfɛlʃn̩] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #52,533 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „verfälschen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
verfälschen is uncommon German at frequency #52,533 among 4,163 “V” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [fɛɐ̯ˈfɛlʃn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "hinsichtlich des Ergebnisses oder der Qualität verändern".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for verfälschen, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 verfälschen, spelled V-E-R-F-Ä-L-S-C-H-E-N.
Definition
- 1hinsichtlich des Ergebnisses oder der Qualität verändern
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how verfälschen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Auf Verlangen des Auftraggebers kann der Bieter sein Angebot klarstellen, präzisieren, fein abstimmen und ergänzen, sofern dies nicht zu einer Änderung der grundlegenden Elemente des Angebots oder der Beschreibung führt, die den Wettbewerb verfälschen oder sich diskriminierend auswirken könnte.“
„[…], wenn die Urkunde in der überlieferten Form auch verfälscht ist, wird man an Ausstellungsdatum und Zweck doch festhalten können.“
This word in other languages
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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