verfehlen

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for verfehlen is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [fɛɐ̯ˈfeːlən]. Corpus data places it at rank #26,213 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "ein Ziel nicht treffen, nicht erreichen".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for verfehlen, with forms such as "evrfehlen", "vefrehlen", and "verefhlen". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "versehen", "vergehen", "verfehlt", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 verfehlen, spelled V-E-R-F-E-H-L-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.