verzwickt
[fɛɐ̯ˈt͡svɪkt]
The verdict
“verzwickt” is uncommon German (frequency #87,236 among 4,163 “V” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,236
- frequency rank, German
- 4,163
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - kompliziert, schwierig
Corpus desk
Index DE-verzwickt · verzwickt · German
verzwickt · rank #87,236 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,236
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,163
- PHOTO-FINISH Viehzüchter
Nearest frequency peer: Viehzüchter (+2 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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „verzwickt“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- versetze
versetze
12,770 corpus weight
- versifft
versifft
12,769 corpus weight
- vertauschte
vertauschte
12,768 corpus weight
- verzwickt
verzwickt
12,765 corpus weight
- Viehzüchter
Viehzüchter
12,763 corpus weight
- visits
visits
12,761 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „verzwickt“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | verzwickt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [fɛɐ̯ˈt͡svɪkt] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #87,236 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „verzwickt“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
verzwickt is uncommon German at frequency #87,236 among 4,163 “V” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [fɛɐ̯ˈt͡svɪkt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "kompliziert, schwierig".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for verzwickt, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is verzwickt, spelled V-E-R-Z-W-I-C-K-T.
Definition
- 1kompliziert, schwierig
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how verzwickt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Das ist ein verzwicktes Problem.
„Nur soll er mir gefälligst sagen, wie es eigentlich anfange mit dem Geistlichwerden, wie das erste Fach heisse? Ob es schwer sei, schwerer als Dezimalbrüche, oder als Hebräisch, das so verzwickt aussehe und von hinten anfange?“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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