vertilgen
[fɛɐ̯ˈtɪlɡn̩]
The verdict
“vertilgen” is uncommon German (frequency #97,915 among 4,163 “V” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,915
- frequency rank, German
- 4,163
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - etwas ausrotten, vernichten
Corpus desk
Index DE-vertilgen · vertilgen · German
vertilgen · rank #97,915 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,915
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,163
- PHOTO-FINISH verstören
Nearest frequency peer: verstören (-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 „vertilgen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- versoffen
versoffen
2,089 corpus weight
- verständnis…
verständnisvollen
2,088 corpus weight
- verstören
verstören
2,087 corpus weight
- vertilgen
vertilgen
2,086 corpus weight
- verunreinig…
verunreinigen
2,084 corpus weight
- verwendbare
verwendbare
2,083 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „vertilgen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vertilgen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [fɛɐ̯ˈtɪlɡn̩] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #97,915 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „vertilgen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
vertilgen is uncommon German at frequency #97,915 among 4,163 “V” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [fɛɐ̯ˈtɪlɡn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for vertilgen in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 vertilgen, spelled V-E-R-T-I-L-G-E-N.
Definition
- 1etwas ausrotten, vernichten
- 2etwas aufessen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vertilgen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Schädlinge sollen vertilgt werden.
Für Emil war es noch nie ein Problem, binnen weniger Minuten eine halbe Sahnetorte zu vertilgen.
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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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