vornehm
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#33,896
in German word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
vornehm is anGermanadj. It means: dem äußeren Erscheinungsbild nach höheren, besser gestellten gesellschaftlichen Kreisen zugehörig, in der Art und Weise dieser Kreise oder sich auf diese Kreise beziehend, von besonderer Feinheit u... Pronounced [ˈfoːɐ̯ˌneːm]. Often confused with vornehme and vornehmen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vornehm |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ˈfoːɐ̯ˌneːm] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #33,896 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for vornehm is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfoːɐ̯ˌneːm]. Corpus data places it at rank #33,896 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for vornehm, with forms such as "ovrnehm", "vonrehm", and "vorenhm". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "vornehme", "vornehmen", "vorne", and more, 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 vornehm, spelled V-O-R-N-E-H-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1dem äußeren Erscheinungsbild nach höheren, besser gestellten gesellschaftlichen Kreisen zugehörig, in der Art und Weise dieser Kreise oder sich auf diese Kreise beziehend, von besonderer Feinheit und Feinfühligkeit oder sich durch andere positive Eigenschaften auszeichnend
- 2äußerst wichtig, äußerst bedeutend, äußerst dringend (als erstes vorzunehmen)
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ovrnehm,vonrehm,vorenhm,vornehhm,vornehmm,vornemh,vornhem,vornnehm,vorrnehm,vronehm,vvornehm
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for vornehm
Misspelling Variants of "vornehm"
Frequency rank: #33,896 in German
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