verweilen
[fɛɐ̯ˈvaɪ̯lən]
The verdict
“verweilen” has 13 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #14,449. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,449
- frequency rank, German
- 4,163
- “V” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - an einem Ort bleiben
Corpus desk
Index DE-verweilen · verweilen · German
verweilen · rank #14,449 · 13 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,449
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,163
- PHOTO-FINISH Verteidigungs…
Nearest frequency peer: Verteidigungsminister (-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 „verweilen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- verfasste
verfasste
85,555 corpus weight
- Vergessenhe…
Vergessenheit
85,554 corpus weight
- Verteidigun…
Verteidigungsminister
85,553 corpus weight
- verweilen
verweilen
85,552 corpus weight
- Videospiele
Videospiele
85,551 corpus weight
- Volksschule
Volksschule
85,550 corpus weight
What this shows „verweilen“ 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 | verweilen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [fɛɐ̯ˈvaɪ̯lən] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #14,449 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „verweilen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around verweilen (IPA [fɛɐ̯ˈvaɪ̯lən]), averb. Corpus frequency is #14,449 among 4,163 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "an einem Ort bleiben".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for verweilen, with forms such as "evrweilen", "verewilen", and "verrweilen". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "verweise", "verwenden", "verweisen", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is verweilen, spelled V-E-R-W-E-I-L-E-N.
Definition
- 1an einem Ort bleiben
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how verweilen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Er ist so ruhelos, er kann nie lange an einem Ort verweilen.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- evrweilen
- verewilen
- verrweilen
- verweieln
- verweilenn
- verweillen
- verweilne
- verwelien
- verwielen
- verwweilen
- vewreilen
- vreweilen
- vverweilen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of verweilen - 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 "verweilen", 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 (13 here; floor ≥5).