Verhaftung
[fɛɐ̯ˈhaftʊŋ]
The verdict
“Verhaftung” has 16 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #10,961. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,961
- frequency rank, German
- 4,163
- “V” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vollzug eines Haftbefehls, Führung in Polizeigewahrsam
Corpus desk
Index DE-verhaftung · Verhaftung · German
Verhaftung · rank #10,961 · 16 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,961
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,163
- PHOTO-FINISH vergesse
Nearest frequency peer: vergesse (-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 „Verhaftung“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Unterbrechu…
Unterbrechung
89,043 corpus weight
- vereinigte
vereinigte
89,042 corpus weight
- vergesse
vergesse
89,041 corpus weight
- Verhaftung
Verhaftung
89,040 corpus weight
- versaut
versaut
89,039 corpus weight
- verschont
verschont
89,038 corpus weight
What this shows „Verhaftung“ 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 | Verhaftung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [fɛɐ̯ˈhaftʊŋ] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #10,961 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Verhaftung“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around Verhaftung (IPA [fɛɐ̯ˈhaftʊŋ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,961 among 4,163 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for Verhaftung, with forms such as "evrhaftung", "vehraftung", and "verahftung". 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, "Verhütung", "Verwaltung", "Verhängung", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Verhaftung, spelled V-E-R-H-A-F-T-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1Vollzug eines Haftbefehls, Führung in Polizeigewahrsam
- 2die Verbundenheit mit, das Haften an etwas
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Verhaftung appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Nach der Verhaftung fanden die Beamten in der Wohnung des 33-Jährigen vier verschiedene Sorten von Sprengstoffen, Drogen und diverse andere Chemikalien.“
„Noch am selben Tag hören wir aus Glowitz, daß es auch dort Verhaftungen gab.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- evrhaftung
- vehraftung
- verahftung
- verhafftung
- verhaftnug
- verhafttung
- verhaftugn
- verhaftungg
- verhaftunng
- verhafutng
- verhatfung
- verhfatung
- verhhaftung
- verrhaftung
- vrehaftung
- vverhaftung
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Verhaftung - 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 "Verhaftung", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).