verschleiern
[fɛɐ̯ˈʃlaɪ̯ɐn]
The verdict
“verschleiern” is a moderately-common German word, ranked #25,815 in German word frequency and used as a verb.
- #25,815
- frequency rank, German
- 12
- letters
- 19
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - vor etwas einen Schleier geben
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 | verschleiern |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [fɛɐ̯ˈʃlaɪ̯ɐn] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #25,815 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “verschleiern” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for verschleiern is 12 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [fɛɐ̯ˈʃlaɪ̯ɐn]. Corpus data places it at rank #25,815 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for verschleiern, with forms such as "evrschleiern", "vercshleiern", and "verrschleiern". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "verschleiert", "Verschleierung", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 verschleiern, spelled V-E-R-S-C-H-L-E-I-E-R-N.
Definition
- 1vor etwas einen Schleier geben
- 2etwas verheimlichen, verbergen
- 3sich mit einem Schleier bedecken
- 4der Himmel vernebelt sich mit einer Dunstglocke oder Wolken
- 5der Blick trübt sich (Tränenflüssigkeit)
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: evrschleiern,vercshleiern,verrschleiern,verscchleiern,verscheliern,verschhleiern,verschleeirn,verschleienr,verschleiernn,verschleierrn,verschleiren,verschlieern,verschlleiern,versclheiern,vershcleiern,versschleiern,vesrchleiern,vreschleiern,vverschleiern
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of verschleiern - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “verschleiern”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is V-E-R-S-C-H-L-E-I-E-R-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [fɛɐ̯ˈʃlaɪ̯ɐn] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “verschleiert” - see the side-by-side comparison. verschleiern vs verschleiert
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.