verursachen
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,253
in German word usage
Misspellings
17
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
verursachen is aGermanverb. It means: etwas auslösen, der Grund für etwas sein, den Ursprung für etwas bilden, für etwas verantwortlich sein Pronounced [fɛɐ̯ˈʔuːɐ̯ˌzaxn̩]. It ranks #6,253 in German word frequency. Often confused with verursacht and verursachte.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | verursachen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [fɛɐ̯ˈʔuːɐ̯ˌzaxn̩] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #6,253 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for verursachen is 11 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [fɛɐ̯ˈʔuːɐ̯ˌzaxn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #6,253 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "etwas auslösen, der Grund für etwas sein, den Ursprung für etwas bilden, für etwas verantwortlich sein".
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 17 documented wrong-spelling variants for verursachen, with forms such as "evrursachen", "verrursachen", and "verrusachen". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "verursacht", "verursachte", "Verursacher", 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 verursachen, spelled V-E-R-U-R-S-A-C-H-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1etwas auslösen, der Grund für etwas sein, den Ursprung für etwas bilden, für etwas verantwortlich sein
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: evrursachen,verrursachen,verrusachen,veruraschen,verurrsachen,verursacchen,verursacehn,verursachenn,verursachhen,verursachne,verursahcen,verurscahen,verurssachen,verusrachen,veurrsachen,vreursachen,vverursachen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for verursachen
Misspelling Variants of "verursachen"
Frequency rank: #6,253 in German
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