Verhöhnung
[fɛɐ̯ˈhøːnʊŋ]
The verdict
“Verhöhnung” is uncommon German (frequency #62,033 among 4,163 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,033
- frequency rank, German
- 4,163
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Handlung, jemanden abfällig/beleidigend zu behandeln und Ergebnis dieser Handlung
Corpus desk
Index DE-verhohnung · Verhöhnung · German
Verhöhnung · rank #62,033 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,033
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,163
- PHOTO-FINISH verdunstet
Nearest frequency peer: verdunstet (-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 „Verhöhnung“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Verbrauchers
Verbrauchers
37,971 corpus weight
- verdunkeln
verdunkeln
37,970 corpus weight
- verdunstet
verdunstet
37,969 corpus weight
- Verhöhnung
Verhöhnung
37,968 corpus weight
- verlas
verlas
37,966 corpus weight
- vermeidbare
vermeidbare
37,965 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Verhöhnung“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Verhöhnung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [fɛɐ̯ˈhøːnʊŋ] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #62,033 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Verhöhnung“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Verhöhnung is uncommon German at frequency #62,033 among 4,163 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [fɛɐ̯ˈhøːnʊŋ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Handlung, jemanden abfällig/beleidigend zu behandeln und Ergebnis dieser Handlung".
Zero misspellings are on record for Verhöhnung in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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. The correct German form is Verhöhnung, spelled V-E-R-H-Ö-H-N-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1Handlung, jemanden abfällig/beleidigend zu behandeln und Ergebnis dieser Handlung
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Verhöhnung appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Der Alte hatte das als Verhöhnung aufgefaßt.“
„Der Kontinentalverband untersucht die fremdenfeindlichen Verhöhnungen von Frankreichs schwarzen Spielern durch Anhänger des Balkan-Teams im Gruppenspiel am vergangenen Donnerstag (2:2).“
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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