verharmlosen
[fɛɐ̯ˈhaʁmloːzn̩]
The verdict
“verharmlosen” has 19 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #33,882. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,882
- frequency rank, German
- 4,163
- “V” headwords
- 19
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - als weniger gefährlich darstellen, als etwas aufgrund der sachlichen Fakten/Argumente ist
Corpus desk
Index DE-verharmlosen · verharmlosen · German
verharmlosen · rank #33,882 · 19 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,882
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 19 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,163
- PHOTO-FINISH Verhaltensmus…
Nearest frequency peer: Verhaltensmuster (-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 „verharmlosen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- vergönnt
vergönnt
66,122 corpus weight
- verhafteten
verhafteten
66,121 corpus weight
- Verhaltensm…
Verhaltensmuster
66,120 corpus weight
- verharmlosen
verharmlosen
66,119 corpus weight
- Verkleineru…
Verkleinerung
66,118 corpus weight
- Verknüpfung…
Verknüpfungen
66,117 corpus weight
What this shows „verharmlosen“ 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 | verharmlosen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [fɛɐ̯ˈhaʁmloːzn̩] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #33,882 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „verharmlosen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 19 spelling variants around verharmlosen (IPA [fɛɐ̯ˈhaʁmloːzn̩]), averb. Corpus frequency is #33,882 among 4,163 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "als weniger gefährlich darstellen, als etwas aufgrund der sachlichen Fakten/Argumente ist".
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for verharmlosen, with forms such as "evrharmlosen", "vehrarmlosen", and "verahrmlosen". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "verharmlost", "Verharmlosung", 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 easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is verharmlosen, spelled V-E-R-H-A-R-M-L-O-S-E-N.
Definition
- 1als weniger gefährlich darstellen, als etwas aufgrund der sachlichen Fakten/Argumente ist
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how verharmlosen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Wir gehen davon aus, dass die staatlichen Stellen das Ansteckungsrisiko ganz bewusst verharmlosten, um einer Massenpanik vorzubeugen.
Verharmlost sie die Mafia?
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- evrharmlosen
- vehrarmlosen
- verahrmlosen
- verhamrlosen
- verharlmosen
- verharmllosen
- verharmloesn
- verharmlosenn
- verharmlosne
- verharmlossen
- verharmlsoen
- verharmmlosen
- verharmolsen
- verharrmlosen
- verhharmlosen
- verhramlosen
- verrharmlosen
- vreharmlosen
- vverharmlosen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of verharmlosen - 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 "verharmlosen", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (19 here; floor ≥5).