versunken
[fɛɐ̯ˈzʊŋkn̩]
The verdict
“versunken” has 14 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #26,671. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,671
- frequency rank, German
- 4,163
- “V” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - irgendwo drin, zum Beispiel unter der Wasseroberfläche, verschwunden
Corpus desk
Index DE-versunken · versunken · German
versunken · rank #26,671 · 14 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,671
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,163
- PHOTO-FINISH verständliche
Nearest frequency peer: verständliche (-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 „versunken“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- verschieden…
verschiedenster
73,333 corpus weight
- verschwunde…
verschwundenen
73,332 corpus weight
- verständlic…
verständliche
73,331 corpus weight
- versunken
versunken
73,330 corpus weight
- verunglückt
verunglückt
73,329 corpus weight
- verunglückte
verunglückte
73,328 corpus weight
What this shows „versunken“ 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 | versunken |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [fɛɐ̯ˈzʊŋkn̩] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #26,671 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „versunken“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around versunken (IPA [fɛɐ̯ˈzʊŋkn̩]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #26,671 among 4,163 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for versunken, with forms such as "evrsunken", "verrsunken", and "versnuken". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "versuchen", "verbunden", "verdanken", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is versunken, spelled V-E-R-S-U-N-K-E-N.
Definition
- 1irgendwo drin, zum Beispiel unter der Wasseroberfläche, verschwunden
- 2in etwas sehr vertieft, auf etwas voll konzentriert und die Umwelt nicht beachtend
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how versunken appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In antiken versunkenen Schiffen findet man manchmal Waffen, Gold oder gar Skelette.
Der im Treibsand versunkene Mann krallt sich an einem dünnen Ast fest.
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- evrsunken
- verrsunken
- versnuken
- verssunken
- versuknen
- versunekn
- versunkenn
- versunkken
- versunkne
- versunnken
- verusnken
- vesrunken
- vresunken
- vversunken
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of versunken - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "versunken", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).