verharschen
[fɛɐ̯ˈhaʁʃn̩]
The verdict
“verharschen” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - hart werden, sich mit einer Kruste überziehen
Corpus desk
Index DE-verharschen · verharschen · German
verharschen · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "V" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | verharschen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [fɛɐ̯ˈhaʁʃn̩] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „verharschen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
verharschen is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [fɛɐ̯ˈhaʁʃn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for verharschen, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is verharschen, spelled V-E-R-H-A-R-S-C-H-E-N.
Definition
- 1hart werden, sich mit einer Kruste überziehen
- 2eine feste, trockene Oberfläche bekommen
- 3verhärten
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how verharschen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Durch die anhaltende Dürre verharschte das ausgetrocknete Flussbett.
Allmählich verharschte die Wunde.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.