vernünftig
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,664
in German word usage
Misspellings
16
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
vernünftig is anGermanadj. It means: seinen Verstand (die Vernunft) gebrauchend, statt sich von Emotionen leiten zu lassen Pronounced [fɛɐ̯ˈnʏnftɪç]. It ranks #5,664 in German word frequency. Often confused with vernünftige and vernünftigen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vernünftig |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [fɛɐ̯ˈnʏnftɪç] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #5,664 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for vernünftig is 10 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [fɛɐ̯ˈnʏnftɪç]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,664 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for vernünftig, with forms such as "evrnünftig", "venrünftig", and "vernnüftig". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "vernünftige", "vernünftigen", "vernünftiger", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 vernünftig, spelled V-E-R-N-Ü-N-F-T-I-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1seinen Verstand (die Vernunft) gebrauchend, statt sich von Emotionen leiten zu lassen
- 2gut oder angemessen handelnd, einsichtig sein und somit die Konsequenzen einer Handlung beachtend
- 3gut, vollwertig
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: evrnünftig,venrünftig,vernnüftig,vernnünftig,vernüfntig,vernünfftig,vernünfitg,vernünftgi,vernünftigg,vernünfttig,vernünnftig,vernüntfig,verrnünftig,verünnftig,vrenünftig,vvernünftig
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for vernünftig
Misspelling Variants of "vernünftig"
Frequency rank: #5,664 in German
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Nearby German words
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