verweigern
[fɛɐ̯ˈvaɪ̯ɡɐn]
The verdict
“verweigern” has 15 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #9,293. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,293
- frequency rank, German
- 4,163
- “V” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - etwas nicht zulassen; eine starrsinnige Haltung einnehmen
Corpus desk
Index DE-verweigern · verweigern · German
verweigern · rank #9,293 · 15 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,293
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,163
- PHOTO-FINISH verschickt
Nearest frequency peer: verschickt (-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 „verweigern“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- verpasste
verpasste
90,711 corpus weight
- verringern
verringern
90,710 corpus weight
- verschickt
verschickt
90,709 corpus weight
- verweigern
verweigern
90,708 corpus weight
- verwickelt
verwickelt
90,707 corpus weight
- verzeichnen
verzeichnen
90,706 corpus weight
What this shows „verweigern“ 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 | verweigern |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [fɛɐ̯ˈvaɪ̯ɡɐn] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #9,293 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „verweigern“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around verweigern (IPA [fɛɐ̯ˈvaɪ̯ɡɐn]), averb. Corpus frequency is #9,293 among 4,163 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for verweigern, with forms such as "evrweigern", "verewigern", and "verrweigern". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "verweisen", "verweilen", "verweigert", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 verweigern, spelled V-E-R-W-E-I-G-E-R-N.
Definition
- 1etwas nicht zulassen; eine starrsinnige Haltung einnehmen
- 2den Wehrdienst nicht leisten
- 3sexuelle Handlungen ablehnen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how verweigern appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ohne Durchsuchungsbeschluss verweigere ich ihnen den Zutritt zu meinem Haus.
Selbst nach 18 stündigem Verhör verweigerte Herr Bleibein jede Aussage.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- evrweigern
- verewigern
- verrweigern
- verwegiern
- verweiegrn
- verweigenr
- verweigernn
- verweigerrn
- verweiggern
- verweigren
- verwiegern
- verwweigern
- vewreigern
- vreweigern
- vverweigern
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of verweigern - 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 "verweigern", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).