vertreten
[fɛɐ̯ˈtʁeːtn̩]
The verdict
“vertreten” has 14 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #1,462. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,462
- frequency rank, German
- 4,163
- “V” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - zeitweise an Stelle von jemand anderem handeln, repräsentieren
Corpus desk
Index DE-vertreten · vertreten · German
vertreten · rank #1,462 · 14 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,462
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,163
- PHOTO-FINISH vorhanden
Nearest frequency peer: vorhanden (+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 „vertreten“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Schwester
Schwester
98,542 corpus weight
- sprach
sprach
98,541 corpus weight
- vertreten
vertreten
98,539 corpus weight
- vorhanden
vorhanden
98,538 corpus weight
- Wolfgang
Wolfgang
98,537 corpus weight
- wünschen
wünschen
98,536 corpus weight
What this shows „vertreten“ 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 | vertreten |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [fɛɐ̯ˈtʁeːtn̩] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #1,462 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „vertreten“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around vertreten (IPA [fɛɐ̯ˈtʁeːtn̩]), averb. Corpus frequency is #1,462 among 4,163 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for vertreten, with forms such as "evrtreten", "verrteten", and "verrtreten". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Vertreter", "Vertretern", "Vertretung", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is vertreten, spelled V-E-R-T-R-E-T-E-N.
Definition
- 1zeitweise an Stelle von jemand anderem handeln, repräsentieren
- 2für eine Auffassung einstehen
- 3nur Partizip: dasein
- 4den Fuß verletzen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vertreten appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die kranke Frau Klein wurde heute von Herrn Gross vertreten.
„Die Ergebnisse wurden als Empfehlungen an den DAeC weitergeleitet, denn beschließen können die Segelflieger nichts, weil sie bislang – ebenso wie die Motorflieger, Modellflieger, Ballonfahrer und Fallschirmsportler – keine selbständige Sparte innerhalb des DAeC bilden, der den gesamten Luftsport beim Internationalen Luftfahrt-Verband (FAI) vertritt.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- evrtreten
- verrteten
- verrtreten
- verterten
- vertreetn
- vertretenn
- vertretne
- vertretten
- vertrreten
- vertrteen
- verttreten
- vetrreten
- vretreten
- vvertreten
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vertreten - 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 "vertreten", 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).