versteigern
[fɛɐ̯ˈʃtaɪ̯ɡɐn]
The verdict
“versteigern” has 17 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #45,021. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,021
- frequency rank, German
- 4,163
- “V” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - bei einer Auktion verkaufen
Corpus desk
Index DE-versteigern · versteigern · German
versteigern · rank #45,021 · 17 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,021
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,163
- PHOTO-FINISH verpass
Nearest frequency peer: verpass (-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 „versteigern“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- verlangst
verlangst
54,983 corpus weight
- verorten
verorten
54,982 corpus weight
- verpass
verpass
54,981 corpus weight
- versteigern
versteigern
54,980 corpus weight
- Vignette
Vignette
54,979 corpus weight
- Vilshofen
Vilshofen
54,978 corpus weight
What this shows „versteigern“ 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 | versteigern |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [fɛɐ̯ˈʃtaɪ̯ɡɐn] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #45,021 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „versteigern“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around versteigern (IPA [fɛɐ̯ˈʃtaɪ̯ɡɐn]), averb. Corpus frequency is #45,021 among 4,163 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "bei einer Auktion verkaufen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for versteigern, with forms such as "evrsteigern", "verrsteigern", and "versetigern". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "verweigern", "versteuern", "versteigert", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is versteigern, spelled V-E-R-S-T-E-I-G-E-R-N.
Definition
- 1bei einer Auktion verkaufen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how versteigern appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Das Haus der Familie wurde letzte Woche versteigert.
Ein Büschel Haare von Elvis Presley ist in Chicago für umgerechnet 10.000 Euro versteigert worden.
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- evrsteigern
- verrsteigern
- versetigern
- verssteigern
- verstegiern
- versteiegrn
- versteigenr
- versteigernn
- versteigerrn
- versteiggern
- versteigren
- verstiegern
- verstteigern
- vertseigern
- vesrteigern
- vresteigern
- vversteigern
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of versteigern - 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 "versteigern", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).