Verschwendung
[fɛɐ̯ˈʃvɛndʊŋ]
The verdict
“Verschwendung” has 22 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #14,202. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,202
- frequency rank, German
- 4,163
- “V” headwords
- 22
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - unnötiger oder sinnloser Verbrauch von etwas
Corpus desk
Index DE-verschwendung · Verschwendung · German
Verschwendung · rank #14,202 · 22 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #14,202
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 22 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,163
- PHOTO-FINISH vertraue
Nearest frequency peer: vertraue (+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 „Verschwendung“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- versammeln
versammeln
85,802 corpus weight
- verschenkt
verschenkt
85,801 corpus weight
- Verschwendu…
Verschwendung
85,799 corpus weight
- vertraue
vertraue
85,798 corpus weight
- verweise
verweise
85,797 corpus weight
- vorwerfen
vorwerfen
85,796 corpus weight
What this shows „Verschwendung“ 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 | Verschwendung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [fɛɐ̯ˈʃvɛndʊŋ] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #14,202 |
| Misspellings tracked | 22 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Verschwendung“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 22 spelling variants around Verschwendung (IPA [fɛɐ̯ˈʃvɛndʊŋ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,202 among 4,163 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "unnötiger oder sinnloser Verbrauch von etwas".
Our generated misspelling index lists 22 likely wrong-spelling variants for Verschwendung, with forms such as "evrschwendung", "vercshwendung", and "verrschwendung". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "verschwenden", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is Verschwendung, spelled V-E-R-S-C-H-W-E-N-D-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1unnötiger oder sinnloser Verbrauch von etwas
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Verschwendung appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Geiz ist Grausamkeit gegen die Dürftigen und die Verschwendung ist es nicht weniger.
Wo die Barmherzigkeit und Klugheit ist, da ist nicht Verschwendung noch Täuschung.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- evrschwendung
- vercshwendung
- verrschwendung
- verscchwendung
- verschewndung
- verschhwendung
- verschwednung
- verschwenddung
- verschwendnug
- verschwendugn
- verschwendungg
- verschwendunng
- verschwenndung
- verschwenudng
- verschwnedung
- verschwwendung
- verscwhendung
- vershcwendung
- versschwendung
- vesrchwendung
- vreschwendung
- vverschwendung
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Verschwendung - 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 "Verschwendung", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (22 here; floor ≥5).