verfärben
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#81,103
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
verfärben is aGermanverb. It means: die ursprüngliche Farbe ändern, meist weil ein neuer Farbton dazukommt, das Ergebnis wird eher negativ gesehen Pronounced [fɛɐ̯ˈfɛʁbn̩].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | verfärben |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [fɛɐ̯ˈfɛʁbn̩] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #81,103 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for verfärben is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [fɛɐ̯ˈfɛʁbn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #81,103 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for verfärben in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is verfärben, spelled V-E-R-F-Ä-R-B-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1die ursprüngliche Farbe ändern, meist weil ein neuer Farbton dazukommt, das Ergebnis wird eher negativ gesehen
- 2die Farbe verlieren/wechseln/ändern, ohne dass dies ein absichtliches Tun ist
- 3jahreszeitenbedingt das Haarkleid/Fell wechseln
Frequency rank: #81,103 in German
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