versuchen
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#788
in German word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
15
similar word pairs
versuchen is aGermanverb. It means: mit ungewissem Erfolg etwas beginnen, anstreben Pronounced [fɛɐ̯ˈzuːxn̩]. It ranks #788 in German word frequency. Often confused with versucht and Versuchs.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | versuchen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [fɛɐ̯ˈzuːxn̩] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #788 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for versuchen is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [fɛɐ̯ˈzuːxn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #788 in overall German word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for versuchen, with forms such as "evrsuchen", "verrsuchen", and "verscuhen". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "versucht", "Versuchs", "versuchte", 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 versuchen, spelled V-E-R-S-U-C-H-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1mit ungewissem Erfolg etwas beginnen, anstreben
- 2dauerhaft, nachdrücklich etwas versuchen
- 3eine soziale Rolle ( einen Beruf) probeweise ausüben
- 4abschmecken, deren Geschmack prüfen bzw. kosten
- 5jemanden zur Sünde, zum Laster verführen
- 6sich an etwas oder jemandem versuchen, sich daran vergehen, dagegen freveln
- 7ohne Erfolg, ohne Ende suchen
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: evrsuchen,verrsuchen,verscuhen,verssuchen,versucchen,versucehn,versuchenn,versuchhen,versuchne,versuhcen,veruschen,vesruchen,vresuchen,vversuchen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for versuchen
Misspelling Variants of "versuchen"
Frequency rank: #788 in German
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