verkanten
Letters
9 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
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verkanten is aGermanverb. It means: etwas mit seinen Ecken oder Seiten (Kanten) an/in einem anderen Teil fest einkeilen Pronounced [fɛɐ̯ˈkantn̩].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | verkanten |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [fɛɐ̯ˈkantn̩] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for verkanten is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [fɛɐ̯ˈkantn̩]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for verkanten in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 verkanten, spelled V-E-R-K-A-N-T-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1etwas mit seinen Ecken oder Seiten (Kanten) an/in einem anderen Teil fest einkeilen
- 2die (für einen bestimmten Zweck wie zum Beispiel Skilaufen oder Sägen) richtige Position einer Längsseite (Kante) verfehlen und diese stattdessen falsch/schräg aufsetzen
- 3den Lauf einer Waffe nach rechts oder links kippen, worunter die Zielgenauigkeit leidet
- 4den Schaft eines Speers nach rechts oder links drehen, wodurch er nicht mehr optimal geradeaus fliegt
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