veruntreuen

/[fɛɐ̯ˈʔʊnˌtʁɔɪ̯ən]/ verb

Letters

11 characters

Language

German

word origin

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veruntreuen is aGermanverb. It means: fremdes Geld (seltener auch Waren), auf die eine Person rechtmäßig Zugriff hat, für einen anderen Zweck als erlaubte Zwecke einsetzen (ganz besonders, wenn der andere Zweck die persönliche Bereiche... Pronounced [fɛɐ̯ˈʔʊnˌtʁɔɪ̯ən].

Key facts for veruntreuen
PropertyValue
Headwordveruntreuen
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[fɛɐ̯ˈʔʊnˌtʁɔɪ̯ən]
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

veruntreuen is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for veruntreuen is 11 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [fɛɐ̯ˈʔʊnˌtʁɔɪ̯ən]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "fremdes Geld (seltener auch Waren), auf die eine Person rechtmäßig Zugriff hat, für einen anderen Zweck als erlaubte Zwecke einsetzen (ganz besonders, wenn der andere Zweck die persönliche Bereiche...".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for veruntreuen in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 veruntreuen, spelled V-E-R-U-N-T-R-E-U-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    fremdes Geld (seltener auch Waren), auf die eine Person rechtmäßig Zugriff hat, für einen anderen Zweck als erlaubte Zwecke einsetzen (ganz besonders, wenn der andere Zweck die persönliche Bereicherung ist)

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "veruntreuen"?
"veruntreuen" is spelled V-E-R-U-N-T-R-E-U-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is [fɛɐ̯ˈʔʊnˌtʁɔɪ̯ən].
What does "veruntreuen" mean?
As a verb, "veruntreuen" means: fremdes Geld (seltener auch Waren), auf die eine Person rechtmäßig Zugriff hat, für einen anderen Zweck als erlaubte Zwecke einsetzen (ganz besonders, wenn der andere Zweck die persönliche Bereiche...
How do you pronounce "veruntreuen"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "veruntreuen" is [fɛɐ̯ˈʔʊnˌtʁɔɪ̯ən]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "veruntreuen" come from?
"veruntreuen" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.