vergessen
[fɛɐ̯ˈɡɛsn̩]
The verdict
“vergessen” is in the everyday core of German, ranked #625 in German word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #625
- frequency rank, German
- 9
- letters
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - in Moment/bestimmter Situation nicht daran gedacht, nicht daran erinnert
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 | vergessen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [fɛɐ̯ˈɡɛsn̩] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #625 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “vergessen” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for vergessen is 9 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [fɛɐ̯ˈɡɛsn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #625 in overall German word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for vergessen, with forms such as "evrgessen", "vegressen", and "veregssen". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "vergesst", "verlesen", "verlassen", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 vergessen, spelled V-E-R-G-E-S-S-E-N.
Definition
- 1in Moment/bestimmter Situation nicht daran gedacht, nicht daran erinnert
- 2(lange) nicht mehr bekannt/beachtet/wahrgenommen, für längere Zeit ganz und gar aus dem Sinn gekommen
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: evrgessen,vegressen,veregssen,vergesen,vergesesn,vergessenn,vergessne,vergeßen,verggessen,vergsesen,verrgessen,vregessen,vvergessen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vergessen - 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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Using “vergessen”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is V-E-R-G-E-S-S-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [fɛɐ̯ˈɡɛsn̩] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “vergesst” - see the side-by-side comparison. vergessen vs vergesst
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.