vergewissern
[fɛɐ̯ɡəˈvɪsɐn]
The verdict
“vergewissern” has 18 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #31,340. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,340
- frequency rank, German
- 4,163
- “V” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - kontrollieren, ob etwas tatsächlich so wie gedacht der Fall ist; sich Gewissheit verschaffen
Corpus desk
Index DE-vergewissern · vergewissern · German
vergewissern · rank #31,340 · 18 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,340
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,163
- PHOTO-FINISH verfüge
Nearest frequency peer: verfüge (-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 „vergewissern“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- verdrängte
verdrängte
68,664 corpus weight
- verewigt
verewigt
68,663 corpus weight
- verfüge
verfüge
68,662 corpus weight
- vergewissern
vergewissern
68,661 corpus weight
- vergingen
vergingen
68,660 corpus weight
- verholfen
verholfen
68,659 corpus weight
What this shows „vergewissern“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vergewissern |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [fɛɐ̯ɡəˈvɪsɐn] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #31,340 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „vergewissern“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around vergewissern (IPA [fɛɐ̯ɡəˈvɪsɐn]), averb. Corpus frequency is #31,340 among 4,163 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "kontrollieren, ob etwas tatsächlich so wie gedacht der Fall ist; sich Gewissheit verschaffen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for vergewissern, with forms such as "evrgewissern", "vegrewissern", and "veregwissern". 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. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is vergewissern, spelled V-E-R-G-E-W-I-S-S-E-R-N.
Definition
- 1kontrollieren, ob etwas tatsächlich so wie gedacht der Fall ist; sich Gewissheit verschaffen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vergewissern appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bevor er sich auf den Weg zum Flughafen macht, vergewissert er sich, ob er die Tickets und Ausweise eingesteckt hat.
Die Kindergärtnerin vergewissert sich, dass alle Kinder vollzählig im Bus sitzen.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- evrgewissern
- vegrewissern
- veregwissern
- vergeiwssern
- vergewisern
- vergewisesrn
- vergewissenr
- vergewissernn
- vergewisserrn
- vergewissren
- vergewißern
- vergewsisern
- vergewwissern
- verggewissern
- vergweissern
- verrgewissern
- vregewissern
- vvergewissern
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vergewissern - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "vergewissern", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).