verhört

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The German entry for verhört is 7 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [fɛɐ̯ˈhøːɐ̯t]. Corpus data places it at rank #24,174 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for verhört, with forms such as "evrhört", "vehrört", and "verhhört". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "verlor", "Vorort", "Vorwort", 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 verhört, spelled V-E-R-H-Ö-R-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.