Verständnis
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,094
in German word usage
Misspellings
18
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
Verständnis is aGermannoun. It means: Verstehen, das inhaltliche Begreifen eines Sachverhalts Pronounced [fɛɐ̯ˈʃtɛntnɪs]. It ranks #2,094 in German word frequency. Often confused with Verstandes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Verständnis |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [fɛɐ̯ˈʃtɛntnɪs] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #2,094 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Verständnis is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [fɛɐ̯ˈʃtɛntnɪs]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,094 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 18 documented wrong-spelling variants for Verständnis, with forms such as "evrständnis", "verrständnis", and "versständnis". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Verstandes", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Verständnis, spelled V-E-R-S-T-Ä-N-D-N-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Verstehen, das inhaltliche Begreifen eines Sachverhalts
- 2Empathie, die Fähigkeit, sich in andere hineinzuversetzen und mitzufühlen
- 3(gleiche) Art und Weise, wie man eine Situation, ein Problem beurteilt
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: evrständnis,verrständnis,versständnis,verstnädnis,versttändnis,verstädnnis,verständdnis,verständins,verständniss,verständnnis,verständnsi,verstänndis,verstänndnis,versätndnis,vertsändnis,vesrtändnis,vreständnis,vverständnis
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Verständnis
Misspelling Variants of "Verständnis"
Frequency rank: #2,094 in German
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