verhängen
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#27,545
in German word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
verhängen is aGermanverb. It means: etwas mit einem Tuch oder dergleichen zuhängen, verbergen Pronounced [fɛɐ̯ˈhɛŋən]. Often confused with versagen and verhängt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | verhängen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [fɛɐ̯ˈhɛŋən] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #27,545 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for verhängen is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [fɛɐ̯ˈhɛŋən]. Corpus data places it at rank #27,545 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for verhängen, with forms such as "evrhängen", "vehrängen", and "verhhängen". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "versagen", "verhängt", "verlange", 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 verhängen, spelled V-E-R-H-Ä-N-G-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1etwas mit einem Tuch oder dergleichen zuhängen, verbergen
- 2eine Buße, Strafe anordnen
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: evrhängen,vehrängen,verhhängen,verhnägen,verhägnen,verhänegn,verhängenn,verhänggen,verhängne,verhänngen,verrhängen,verähngen,vrehängen,vverhängen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for verhängen
Misspelling Variants of "verhängen"
Frequency rank: #27,545 in German
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