verhehlen
[fɛɐ̯ˈheːlən]
The verdict
“verhehlen” is uncommon German (frequency #88,451 among 4,163 “V” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,451
- frequency rank, German
- 4,163
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - jemandem etwas (besonders Gefühle und Gedanken) verheimlichen, verbergen
Corpus desk
Index DE-verhehlen · verhehlen · German
verhehlen · rank #88,451 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,451
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,163
- PHOTO-FINISH verhaltene
Nearest frequency peer: verhaltene (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „verhehlen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- verbeugt
verbeugt
11,554 corpus weight
- Verbundes
Verbundes
11,553 corpus weight
- verfassungs…
verfassungswidriger
11,552 corpus weight
- verhaltene
verhaltene
11,551 corpus weight
- verhehlen
verhehlen
11,550 corpus weight
- Verkehrspol…
Verkehrspolizei
11,547 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „verhehlen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | verhehlen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [fɛɐ̯ˈheːlən] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #88,451 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „verhehlen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
verhehlen is uncommon German at frequency #88,451 among 4,163 “V” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [fɛɐ̯ˈheːlən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for verhehlen, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is verhehlen, spelled V-E-R-H-E-H-L-E-N.
Definition
- 1jemandem etwas (besonders Gefühle und Gedanken) verheimlichen, verbergen
- 2unrechtmäßig erworbene Dinge versteckt halten
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how verhehlen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Er konnte seine Schadenfreude nur schlecht verhehlen.
„Die Bauern sind beinahe alle Analphabeten, das sind aber auch viele der großen Fürsten, die sich metallene Petschaften mit ihrer Unterschrift gravieren lassen, sodass sie Dokumente nicht unterzeichnen müssen, sondern nur zu stempeln brauchen und damit verhehlen können, dass sie unfähig sind, ihren eigenen erlauchten Namen zu schreiben.“
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); 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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