VfR
The verdict
“VfR” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #19,442) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #19,442
- frequency rank, German
- 4,163
- “V” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Verein für Rasenspiele / Verein für Rasensport
Corpus desk
Index DE-vfr · VfR · German
VfR · rank #19,442 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,442
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,163
- PHOTO-FINISH verzweifelte
Nearest frequency peer: verzweifelte (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „VfR“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- versteigert
versteigert
80,563 corpus weight
- verweigerte
verweigerte
80,561 corpus weight
- verzweifelte
verzweifelte
80,560 corpus weight
- VfR
VfR
80,559 corpus weight
- Vorfahrt
Vorfahrt
80,557 corpus weight
- Vorstadt
Vorstadt
80,556 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „VfR“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
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 | VfR |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #19,442 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „VfR“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for VfR is neighbouring look-alikes ("VW", "vi", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation. Frequency #19,442 among 4,163 “V” headwords. Gloss: "Verein für Rasenspiele / Verein für Rasensport".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for VfR, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "VW", "vi", "VR", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is VfR, spelled V-F-R.
Definition
- 1Verein für Rasenspiele / Verein für Rasensport
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how VfR appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Sein erstes Spiel nach der Wiedergründung absolvierte der VfR Aalen bereits am 20. März 1921 gegen den FC 08 Unterkochen.“
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
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).