vorgeschrieben

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for vorgeschrieben is 14 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfoːɐ̯ɡəˌʃʁiːbn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #9,835 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Partizip Perfekt des Verbs vorschreiben".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 22 documented wrong-spelling variants for vorgeschrieben, with forms such as "ovrgeschrieben", "vogreschrieben", and "voregschrieben". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "vorgeschriebene", "vorgeschriebenen", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is vorgeschrieben, spelled V-O-R-G-E-S-C-H-R-I-E-B-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.