Vernunft
[fɛɐ̯ˈnʊnft]
The verdict
“Vernunft” has 13 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #5,895. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,895
- frequency rank, German
- 4,163
- “V” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fähigkeit des menschlichen Denkens; geistiges Vermögen des Menschen, mit seinem Verstand durch Beobachtung und Erfahrung erfasster Sachverhalte universelle Zusammenhänge der Wirklichkeit durch Schl...
Corpus desk
Index DE-vernunft · Vernunft · German
Vernunft · rank #5,895 · 13 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,895
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,163
- PHOTO-FINISH vermehrt
Nearest frequency peer: vermehrt (-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 „Vernunft“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- veranstaltet
veranstaltet
94,109 corpus weight
- verbundenen
verbundenen
94,108 corpus weight
- vermehrt
vermehrt
94,107 corpus weight
- Vernunft
Vernunft
94,106 corpus weight
- versagt
versagt
94,105 corpus weight
- versichert
versichert
94,104 corpus weight
What this shows „Vernunft“ 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 | Vernunft |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [fɛɐ̯ˈnʊnft] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #5,895 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Vernunft“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Vernunft (IPA [fɛɐ̯ˈnʊnft]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,895 among 4,163 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Fähigkeit des menschlichen Denkens; geistiges Vermögen des Menschen, mit seinem Verstand durch Beobachtung und Erfahrung erfasster Sachverhalte universelle Zusammenhänge der Wirklichkeit durch Schl...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Vernunft, with forms such as "evrnunft", "venrunft", and "vernnuft". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "verpufft", "vernünftig", "verdünnt", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is Vernunft, spelled V-E-R-N-U-N-F-T.
Definition
- 1Fähigkeit des menschlichen Denkens; geistiges Vermögen des Menschen, mit seinem Verstand durch Beobachtung und Erfahrung erfasster Sachverhalte universelle Zusammenhänge der Wirklichkeit durch Schlussfolgerung herstellen zu können, deren Bedeutung zu erkennen, Regeln und Prinzipien aufzustellen und danach zu handeln
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Vernunft appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nur der Mensch ist zur Vernunft fähig.
Die Vernunft ist das oberste Erkenntnisvermögen, das den Verstand kontrolliert und diesem Grenzen setzt bzw. dessen Beschränkungen erkennt.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- evrnunft
- venrunft
- vernnuft
- vernnunft
- vernufnt
- vernunfft
- vernunftt
- vernunnft
- vernuntf
- verrnunft
- verunnft
- vrenunft
- vvernunft
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Vernunft - 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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).