verscherzen
[fɛɐ̯ˈʃɛʁt͡sn̩]
The verdict
“verscherzen” is uncommon German (frequency #83,462 among 4,163 “V” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,462
- frequency rank, German
- 4,163
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sich durch eigene Schuld um etwas bringen, durch eigenes Fehlverhalten etwas verlieren
Corpus desk
Index DE-verscherzen · verscherzen · German
verscherzen · rank #83,462 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,462
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,163
- PHOTO-FINISH verschandelt
Nearest frequency peer: verschandelt (-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 „verscherzen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- verloben
verloben
16,542 corpus weight
- Verrätern
Verrätern
16,541 corpus weight
- verschandelt
verschandelt
16,540 corpus weight
- verscherzen
verscherzen
16,539 corpus weight
- Verschlecht…
Verschlechterungen
16,537 corpus weight
- Versicherun…
Versicherungsbetrug
16,536 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „verscherzen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | verscherzen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [fɛɐ̯ˈʃɛʁt͡sn̩] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #83,462 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „verscherzen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
verscherzen is uncommon German at frequency #83,462 among 4,163 “V” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [fɛɐ̯ˈʃɛʁt͡sn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "sich durch eigene Schuld um etwas bringen, durch eigenes Fehlverhalten etwas verlieren".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for verscherzen, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 verscherzen, spelled V-E-R-S-C-H-E-R-Z-E-N.
Definition
- 1sich durch eigene Schuld um etwas bringen, durch eigenes Fehlverhalten etwas verlieren
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how verscherzen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Aber man will sich durch Klartext keine Sympathien verscherzen.“
Durch seine derben Witze hat er es sich mit seinen Schwiegereltern gründlich verscherzt.
Synonyms
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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