Verstrickung
[fɛɐ̯ˈʃtʁɪkʊŋ]
The verdict
“Verstrickung” is uncommon German (frequency #55,003 among 4,163 “V” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,003
- frequency rank, German
- 4,163
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prozess/Zustand, in einer bestimmten Konstellation/Situation gefangen zu werden beziehungsweise zu sein
Corpus desk
Index DE-verstrickung · Verstrickung · German
Verstrickung · rank #55,003 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,003
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,163
- PHOTO-FINISH versierte
Nearest frequency peer: versierte (-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 „Verstrickung“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- versagten
versagten
45,001 corpus weight
- verseuchten
verseuchten
45,000 corpus weight
- versierte
versierte
44,999 corpus weight
- Verstrickung
Verstrickung
44,998 corpus weight
- vertauschen
vertauschen
44,997 corpus weight
- Vertrauensv…
Vertrauensverlust
44,995 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Verstrickung“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Verstrickung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [fɛɐ̯ˈʃtʁɪkʊŋ] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #55,003 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Verstrickung“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Verstrickung is uncommon German at frequency #55,003 among 4,163 “V” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [fɛɐ̯ˈʃtʁɪkʊŋ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prozess/Zustand, in einer bestimmten Konstellation/Situation gefangen zu werden beziehungsweise zu sein".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Verstrickung, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Verstrickung, spelled V-E-R-S-T-R-I-C-K-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1Prozess/Zustand, in einer bestimmten Konstellation/Situation gefangen zu werden beziehungsweise zu sein
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Verstrickung appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Und sie sprechen darüber, welche Kreise die Verstrickung eigener Familienmitglieder in die Taten der Nationalsozialisten noch bei den kommenden Generationen zog.“
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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