verwischen
[fɛɐ̯ˈvɪʃn̩]
The verdict
“verwischen” has 16 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #32,842. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,842
- frequency rank, German
- 4,163
- “V” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - etwas unklar machen/verschmieren, indem man zum Beispiel etwas noch Feuchtes zu früh berührt
Corpus desk
Index DE-verwischen · verwischen · German
verwischen · rank #32,842 · 16 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,842
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,163
- PHOTO-FINISH vertretene
Nearest frequency peer: vertretene (-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 „verwischen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- vertragliche
vertragliche
67,162 corpus weight
- vertrau
vertrau
67,161 corpus weight
- vertretene
vertretene
67,160 corpus weight
- verwischen
verwischen
67,159 corpus weight
- Verzerrung
Verzerrung
67,158 corpus weight
- verüben
verüben
67,157 corpus weight
What this shows „verwischen“ 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 | verwischen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [fɛɐ̯ˈvɪʃn̩] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #32,842 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „verwischen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around verwischen (IPA [fɛɐ̯ˈvɪʃn̩]), averb. Corpus frequency is #32,842 among 4,163 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for verwischen, with forms such as "evrwischen", "veriwschen", and "verrwischen". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "verwischt", "verarschen", "vermischen", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is verwischen, spelled V-E-R-W-I-S-C-H-E-N.
Definition
- 1etwas unklar machen/verschmieren, indem man zum Beispiel etwas noch Feuchtes zu früh berührt
- 2etwas wird (durch äußere Einflüsse) unklar/nicht gut nachzuvollziehen
- 3etwas voller Absicht unklar machen, es verdecken oder Hinweise zerstören
- 4erwischen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how verwischen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Linkshänder verwischen oft beim Schreiben die Schrift, wenn die Tinte noch frisch ist.
Langsam verwischt sich die Grenze zwischen passivem Beobachter und aktivem Teilnehmer.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- evrwischen
- veriwschen
- verrwischen
- verwicshen
- verwiscchen
- verwiscehn
- verwischenn
- verwischhen
- verwischne
- verwishcen
- verwisschen
- verwsichen
- verwwischen
- vewrischen
- vrewischen
- vverwischen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of verwischen - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "verwischen", 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 (16 here; floor ≥5).