Verlockung

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Verlockung is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [fɛɐ̯ˈlɔkʊŋ]. Corpus data places it at rank #65,823 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Eigenschaft oder Handlung, die dazu führt, die Meinung, das Interesse, die Zuwendung auf sich zu ziehen".

No misspelling variants are generated for Verlockung in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns.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 Verlockung, spelled V-E-R-L-O-C-K-U-N-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.