verschärfen
[fɛɐ̯ˈʃɛʁfn̩]
The verdict
“verschärfen” has 18 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #21,828. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,828
- frequency rank, German
- 4,163
- “V” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - etwas strenger machen, etwas rigoroser machen; auch: etwas erhöhen, etwas steigern; auch: etwas verschlechtern
Corpus desk
Index DE-verscharfen · verschärfen · German
verschärfen · rank #21,828 · 18 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,828
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,163
- PHOTO-FINISH Verschuldung
Nearest frequency peer: Verschuldung (-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 „verschärfen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- verrecken
verrecken
78,176 corpus weight
- Versailles
Versailles
78,175 corpus weight
- Verschuldung
Verschuldung
78,174 corpus weight
- verschärfen
verschärfen
78,173 corpus weight
- versendet
versendet
78,172 corpus weight
- verständigt
verständigt
78,171 corpus weight
What this shows „verschärfen“ 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 | verschärfen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [fɛɐ̯ˈʃɛʁfn̩] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #21,828 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „verschärfen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around verschärfen (IPA [fɛɐ̯ˈʃɛʁfn̩]), averb. Corpus frequency is #21,828 among 4,163 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for verschärfen, with forms such as "evrschärfen", "vercshärfen", and "verrschärfen". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "verschärft", "verschlafen", "verschärfte", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 verschärfen, spelled V-E-R-S-C-H-Ä-R-F-E-N.
Definition
- 1etwas strenger machen, etwas rigoroser machen; auch: etwas erhöhen, etwas steigern; auch: etwas verschlechtern
- 2in eine kritischere, bedrohlichere Lage geraten
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how verschärfen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Radrennen: Am Berg verschärfte die Spitzengruppe das Tempo, sie wollten sich nicht vom Peloton einholen lassen.
Wirtschaft: Die Automatisierung verschärft die Arbeitslosigkeit.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- evrschärfen
- vercshärfen
- verrschärfen
- verscchärfen
- verschhärfen
- verschräfen
- verschäfren
- verschärefn
- verschärfenn
- verschärffen
- verschärfne
- verschärrfen
- verscährfen
- vershcärfen
- versschärfen
- vesrchärfen
- vreschärfen
- vverschärfen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of verschärfen - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "verschärfen", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).