verfolge
[fɛɐ̯ˈfɔlɡə]
The verdict
“verfolge” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #14,974. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,974
- frequency rank, German
- 4,163
- “V” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs verfolgen
Corpus desk
Index DE-verfolge · verfolge · German
verfolge · rank #14,974 · 12 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,974
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,163
- PHOTO-FINISH verbündete
Nearest frequency peer: verbündete (-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 „verfolge“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- verbotene
verbotene
85,030 corpus weight
- Verbundenhe…
Verbundenheit
85,029 corpus weight
- verbündete
verbündete
85,028 corpus weight
- verfolge
verfolge
85,027 corpus weight
- verhinderte
verhinderte
85,026 corpus weight
- vermisste
vermisste
85,025 corpus weight
What this shows „verfolge“ 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 | verfolge |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [fɛɐ̯ˈfɔlɡə] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #14,974 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „verfolge“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around verfolge (IPA [fɛɐ̯ˈfɔlɡə]), averb. Corpus frequency is #14,974 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 verfolge, with forms such as "evrfolge", "vefrolge", and "verffolge". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "verfüge", "verfolgt", "verfolgen", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is verfolge, spelled V-E-R-F-O-L-G-E.
Definition
- 11. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs verfolgen
- 21. Person Singular Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv des Verbs verfolgen
- 33. Person Singular Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv des Verbs verfolgen
- 42. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs verfolgen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- evrfolge
- vefrolge
- verffolge
- verfloge
- verfogle
- verfoleg
- verfolgge
- verfollge
- veroflge
- verrfolge
- vrefolge
- vverfolge
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of verfolge - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "verfolge", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).