verspielen
[fɛɐ̯ˈʃpiːlən]
The verdict
“verspielen” has 15 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #48,597. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,597
- frequency rank, German
- 4,163
- “V” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - einen Einsatz bei einem Spiel verlieren
Corpus desk
Index DE-verspielen · verspielen · German
verspielen · rank #48,597 · 15 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,597
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,163
- PHOTO-FINISH verrotten
Nearest frequency peer: verrotten (-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 „verspielen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Verkehrswes…
Verkehrswesen
51,407 corpus weight
- Verlustes
Verlustes
51,406 corpus weight
- verrotten
verrotten
51,405 corpus weight
- verspielen
verspielen
51,404 corpus weight
- verändernden
verändernden
51,403 corpus weight
- vibrieren
vibrieren
51,402 corpus weight
What this shows „verspielen“ 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 | verspielen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [fɛɐ̯ˈʃpiːlən] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #48,597 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „verspielen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around verspielen (IPA [fɛɐ̯ˈʃpiːlən]), averb. Corpus frequency is #48,597 among 4,163 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for verspielen, with forms such as "evrspielen", "verpsielen", and "verrspielen". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "verspielt", "verspielte", "vorspielen", 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 to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is verspielen, spelled V-E-R-S-P-I-E-L-E-N.
Definition
- 1einen Einsatz bei einem Spiel verlieren
- 2einen Einsatz bei einem Spiel verlieren
- 3beim Spielen (zum Beispiel von Instrumenten) einen Fehler machen
- 4eine Zeit mit Spielen zubringen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how verspielen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Er hat sein Vermögen verspielt.
„Doch der Anwalt habe das Geld, statt es zu vermehren, verspielt[; e]r sei wettsüchtig gewesen […].“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- evrspielen
- verpsielen
- verrspielen
- versipelen
- verspeilen
- verspieeln
- verspielenn
- verspiellen
- verspielne
- verspileen
- versppielen
- versspielen
- vesrpielen
- vrespielen
- vverspielen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of verspielen - 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 "verspielen", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).