verkalkulieren
[fɛɐ̯kalkuˈliːʁən]
The verdict
“verkalkulieren” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - bei einer Berechnung (Kalkulation) einen Fehler machen
Corpus desk
Index DE-verkalkulieren · verkalkulieren · German
verkalkulieren · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 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 | verkalkulieren |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [fɛɐ̯kalkuˈliːʁən] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „verkalkulieren“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
verkalkulieren is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [fɛɐ̯kalkuˈliːʁən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for verkalkulieren in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 verkalkulieren, spelled V-E-R-K-A-L-K-U-L-I-E-R-E-N.
Definition
- 1bei einer Berechnung (Kalkulation) einen Fehler machen
- 2eine Situation falsch einschätzen, häufig, wenn es um das Schätzen von Größenordnungen oder Erfolgsaussichten geht
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how verkalkulieren appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bei den Kosten für den Flughafenausbau verkalkulierte man sich einmal mehr.
Wir können es uns nicht erlauben, uns bei den rabattierten Angeboten zu verkalkulieren.
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.