verschanzen
[fɛɐ̯ˈʃant͡sn̩]
The verdict
“verschanzen” is uncommon German (frequency #74,133 among 4,163 “V” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,133
- frequency rank, German
- 4,163
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sich zum Schutz in eine Deckung bringen; sich (wie in einer Schanze) befestigen, sich eingraben
Corpus desk
Index DE-verschanzen · verschanzen · German
verschanzen · rank #74,133 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,133
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,163
- PHOTO-FINISH vernascht
Nearest frequency peer: vernascht (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „verschanzen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- vermählen
vermählen
25,870 corpus weight
- vernascht
vernascht
25,869 corpus weight
- verschanzen
verschanzen
25,868 corpus weight
- verschieden…
verschiedenartige
25,867 corpus weight
- verschraubt
verschraubt
25,866 corpus weight
- verschwimmt
verschwimmt
25,865 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „verschanzen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | verschanzen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [fɛɐ̯ˈʃant͡sn̩] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #74,133 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „verschanzen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
verschanzen is uncommon German at frequency #74,133 among 4,163 “V” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [fɛɐ̯ˈʃant͡sn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "sich zum Schutz in eine Deckung bringen; sich (wie in einer Schanze) befestigen, sich eingraben".
No generated misspelling entries exist for verschanzen in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is verschanzen, spelled V-E-R-S-C-H-A-N-Z-E-N.
Definition
- 1sich zum Schutz in eine Deckung bringen; sich (wie in einer Schanze) befestigen, sich eingraben
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how verschanzen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mehr als hundert Muslime verschanzen sich in der Al-Aksa-Moschee.
This word in other languages
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).