Verkühlung
[fɛɐ̯ˈkyːlʊŋ]
The verdict
“Verkühlung” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Erkrankung, Infektion der Atemwege (zum Beispiel Husten, Schnupfen, Heiserkeit, Katarrh)
Corpus desk
Index DE-verkuhlung · Verkühlung · German
Verkühlung · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 | Verkühlung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [fɛɐ̯ˈkyːlʊŋ] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “Verkühlung” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Rare enough to double-check
Verkühlung is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [fɛɐ̯ˈkyːlʊŋ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Erkrankung, Infektion der Atemwege (zum Beispiel Husten, Schnupfen, Heiserkeit, Katarrh)".
Verkühlung has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 Verkühlung, spelled V-E-R-K-Ü-H-L-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1Erkrankung, Infektion der Atemwege (zum Beispiel Husten, Schnupfen, Heiserkeit, Katarrh)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Verkühlung appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Steht dann auch noch das Fenster offen oder ist gar eine Klimaanlage angeschaltet, ist die Verkühlung vorprogrammiert.“
„Der Nachteil von Baumwolle sei, dass diese den Schweiß aufsaugt und dadurch die Gefahr einer Verkühlung entsteht.“
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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.
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