Vertretung
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,247
in German word usage
Misspellings
16
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
Vertretung is aGermannoun. It means: Person, die jemanden vorübergehend vertritt Pronounced [fɛɐ̯ˈtʁeːtʊŋ]. It ranks #7,247 in German word frequency. Often confused with Vertretungen and vertreten.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Vertretung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [fɛɐ̯ˈtʁeːtʊŋ] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #7,247 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Vertretung is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [fɛɐ̯ˈtʁeːtʊŋ]. Corpus data places it at rank #7,247 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for Vertretung, with forms such as "evrtretung", "verrtetung", and "verrtretung". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "Vertretungen", "vertreten", "Vermietung", 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 Vertretung, spelled V-E-R-T-R-E-T-U-N-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Person, die jemanden vorübergehend vertritt
- 2Person, die jemanden vorübergehend vertritt
- 3Sitz einer Vertretung
- 4delegierte Mannschaft, Riege oder Ähnliches
- 5Vermittlung des Verkaufes für ein Unternehmen; Handelsvertretung
- 6Niederlassung eines Unternehmens, Repräsentanz
- 7das Handeln einer Person (Vertreter beziehungsweise Stellvertreter) für eine andere Person (Vertretener), welche die rechtlichen Folgen dieses Handelns treffen
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: evrtretung,verrtetung,verrtretung,vertertung,vertretnug,vertrettung,vertretugn,vertretungg,vertretunng,vertreutng,vertrretung,vertrteung,verttretung,vetrretung,vretretung,vvertretung
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Vertretung
Misspelling Variants of "Vertretung"
Frequency rank: #7,247 in German
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