Versuch
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,171
in German word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
Versuch is aGermannoun. It means: das Ausprobieren von etwas; Handlung Pronounced [fɛɐ̯ˈzuːx]. It ranks #1,171 in German word frequency. Often confused with versus and versucht.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Versuch |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [fɛɐ̯ˈzuːx] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,171 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Versuch is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [fɛɐ̯ˈzuːx]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,171 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for Versuch, with forms such as "evrsuch", "verrsuch", and "verscuh". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "versus", "versucht", "versuche", and more, 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 Versuch, spelled V-E-R-S-U-C-H, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1das Ausprobieren von etwas; Handlung
- 2absichtliche Herbeiführung einer Erscheinung, um Gesetzmäßigkeiten erkennen zu können: Experiment
- 3deutsches Synonym für Essay
- 4Art, im Rugby Punkte zu erzielen, indem man den Ball im gegnerischen Malfeld ablegt
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: evrsuch,verrsuch,verscuh,verssuch,versucch,versuchh,versuhc,verusch,vesruch,vresuch,vversuch
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Versuch
Misspelling Variants of "Versuch"
Frequency rank: #1,171 in German
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