versteht
[fɛɐ̯ˈʃteːt]
The verdict
“versteht” has 13 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #1,681. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,681
- frequency rank, German
- 4,163
- “V” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs verstehen
Corpus desk
Index DE-versteht · versteht · German
versteht · rank #1,681 · 13 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,681
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,163
- PHOTO-FINISH Veranstaltung…
Nearest frequency peer: Veranstaltungen (-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 „versteht“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- stärker
stärker
98,323 corpus weight
- Urteil
Urteil
98,322 corpus weight
- Veranstaltu…
Veranstaltungen
98,321 corpus weight
- versteht
versteht
98,320 corpus weight
- Vertreter
Vertreter
98,319 corpus weight
- Verwaltung
Verwaltung
98,318 corpus weight
What this shows „versteht“ 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 | versteht |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [fɛɐ̯ˈʃteːt] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,681 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „versteht“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around versteht (IPA [fɛɐ̯ˈʃteːt]), averb. Corpus frequency is #1,681 among 4,163 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for versteht, with forms such as "evrsteht", "verrsteht", and "versetht". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "verweht", "versucht", "vorsieht", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is versteht, spelled V-E-R-S-T-E-H-T.
Definition
- 13. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs verstehen
- 22. Person Plural Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs verstehen
- 32. Person Plural Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs verstehen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- evrsteht
- verrsteht
- versetht
- verssteht
- verstehht
- verstehtt
- versteth
- versthet
- verstteht
- vertseht
- vesrteht
- vresteht
- vversteht
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of versteht - 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 "versteht", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).