verkohlt
[fɛɐ̯ˈkoːlt]
The verdict
“verkohlt” is uncommon German (frequency #76,345 among 4,163 “V” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,345
- frequency rank, German
- 4,163
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - zu einer schwarzen Substanz geworden, die Kohle ähnelt
Corpus desk
Index DE-verkohlt · verkohlt · German
verkohlt · rank #76,345 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,345
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,163
- PHOTO-FINISH verkorkst
Nearest frequency peer: verkorkst (+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 „verkohlt“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Verfügungsg…
Verfügungsgewalt
23,660 corpus weight
- verhärten
verhärten
23,659 corpus weight
- verkohlt
verkohlt
23,656 corpus weight
- verkorkst
verkorkst
23,655 corpus weight
- verkorksten
verkorksten
23,654 corpus weight
- verliest
verliest
23,653 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „verkohlt“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | verkohlt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [fɛɐ̯ˈkoːlt] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #76,345 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „verkohlt“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
verkohlt is uncommon German at frequency #76,345 among 4,163 “V” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [fɛɐ̯ˈkoːlt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "zu einer schwarzen Substanz geworden, die Kohle ähnelt".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for verkohlt, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 verkohlt, spelled V-E-R-K-O-H-L-T.
Definition
- 1zu einer schwarzen Substanz geworden, die Kohle ähnelt
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how verkohlt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Unter der Überschrift prangten zwei Bilder, ein attraktives Stockfoto-Model mit rotem Haar und daneben ein verkohlter Leichnam, der so bearbeitet war, dass er gruselig glatt aussah und mit seltsam weißen Augen in die Kamera starrte.“
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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