verlängern
[fɛɐ̯ˈlɛŋɐn]
The verdict
“verlängern” has 16 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #9,289. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,289
- frequency rank, German
- 4,163
- “V” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - etwas (räumlich) länger machen; die (räumliche) Ausdehnung von etwas erhöhen
Corpus desk
Index DE-verlangern · verlängern · German
verlängern · rank #9,289 · 16 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,289
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,163
- PHOTO-FINISH verpasste
Nearest frequency peer: verpasste (+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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „verlängern“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Verfasser
Verfasser
90,716 corpus weight
- verhandelt
verhandelt
90,714 corpus weight
- verlängern
verlängern
90,712 corpus weight
- verpasste
verpasste
90,711 corpus weight
- verringern
verringern
90,710 corpus weight
- verschickt
verschickt
90,709 corpus weight
What this shows „verlängern“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | verlängern |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [fɛɐ̯ˈlɛŋɐn] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #9,289 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „verlängern“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around verlängern (IPA [fɛɐ̯ˈlɛŋɐn]), averb. Corpus frequency is #9,289 among 4,163 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for verlängern, with forms such as "evrlängern", "velrängern", and "verllängern". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "verlängert", "verringern", "verlangten", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is verlängern, spelled V-E-R-L-Ä-N-G-E-R-N.
Definition
- 1etwas (räumlich) länger machen; die (räumliche) Ausdehnung von etwas erhöhen
- 2eine Zeitspanne ausdehnen; etwas länger dauern lassen als vorgesehen war
- 3die Konzentration durch hinzufügen einer Flüssigkeit verringern
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how verlängern appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Schneiderin verlängert die Hosenbeine mit viel Aufwand und Können.
Der Betreiber des Flughafens möchte seine Landebahnen verlängern, damit dort größere Flugzeuge starten und landen können.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- evrlängern
- velrängern
- verllängern
- verlnägern
- verlägnern
- verlänegrn
- verlängenr
- verlängernn
- verlängerrn
- verlänggern
- verlängren
- verlänngern
- verrlängern
- verälngern
- vrelängern
- vverlängern
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of verlängern - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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