verfangen
[fɛɐ̯ˈfaŋən]
The verdict
“verfangen” has 14 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #40,277. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,277
- frequency rank, German
- 4,163
- “V” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - den gewünschten oder beabsichtigten Erfolg haben; wirken
Corpus desk
Index DE-verfangen · verfangen · German
verfangen · rank #40,277 · 14 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,277
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,163
- PHOTO-FINISH verdrehte
Nearest frequency peer: verdrehte (-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 „verfangen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- vd
vd
59,727 corpus weight
- Verblendung
Verblendung
59,726 corpus weight
- verdrehte
verdrehte
59,725 corpus weight
- verfangen
verfangen
59,724 corpus weight
- Verfassungs…
Verfassungsrecht
59,723 corpus weight
- verfestigt
verfestigt
59,722 corpus weight
What this shows „verfangen“ 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 | verfangen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [fɛɐ̯ˈfaŋən] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #40,277 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „verfangen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around verfangen (IPA [fɛɐ̯ˈfaŋən]), averb. Corpus frequency is #40,277 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 verfangen, with forms such as "evrfangen", "vefrangen", and "verafngen". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "verfügen", "versagen", "verlange", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 verfangen, spelled V-E-R-F-A-N-G-E-N.
Definition
- 1den gewünschten oder beabsichtigten Erfolg haben; wirken
- 2in etwas hängen bleiben; sich verheddern
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how verfangen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Schönen Frauen musst du sagen, sie seien klug, klugen, sie seien schön; solltest du einmal einer begegnen, die klug und schön ist – aber das gibt es nur im Märchen –, dann sagst du, bei ihr verfange sicher keine Schmeichelei; das schmeichelt immer.“
„Johnny Fontanes Charme hatte nie bei ihm verfangen.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- evrfangen
- vefrangen
- verafngen
- verfagnen
- verfanegn
- verfangenn
- verfanggen
- verfangne
- verfanngen
- verffangen
- verfnagen
- verrfangen
- vrefangen
- vverfangen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of verfangen - 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 "verfangen", 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).