versteift
[fɛɐ̯ˈʃtaɪ̯ft]
The verdict
“versteift” is uncommon German (frequency #63,912 among 4,163 “V” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,912
- frequency rank, German
- 4,163
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partizip Perfekt des Verbs versteifen
Corpus desk
Index DE-versteift · versteift · German
versteift · rank #63,912 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,912
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,163
- PHOTO-FINISH versiegelten
Nearest frequency peer: versiegelten (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „versteift“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Verschnaufp…
Verschnaufpause
36,092 corpus weight
- verschüttete
verschüttete
36,091 corpus weight
- versiegelten
versiegelten
36,090 corpus weight
- versteift
versteift
36,089 corpus weight
- Verstimmung
Verstimmung
36,088 corpus weight
- Verwaltungs…
Verwaltungsaufgaben
36,086 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „versteift“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | versteift |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [fɛɐ̯ˈʃtaɪ̯ft] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #63,912 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „versteift“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
versteift is uncommon German at frequency #63,912 among 4,163 “V” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [fɛɐ̯ˈʃtaɪ̯ft]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partizip Perfekt des Verbs versteifen".
Zero misspellings are on record for versteift in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is versteift, spelled V-E-R-S-T-E-I-F-T.
Definition
- 1Partizip Perfekt des Verbs versteifen
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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