vorschreiben
Letters
12 characters
Frequency Rank
#19,080
in German word usage
Misspellings
19
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
vorschreiben is aGermanverb. It means: jemandem Vorschriften machen; jemandem sagen, was er tun soll Pronounced [ˈfoːɐ̯ˌʃʁaɪ̯bn̩]. Often confused with vorschreibt and verschreiben.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vorschreiben |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈfoːɐ̯ˌʃʁaɪ̯bn̩] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #19,080 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for vorschreiben is 12 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfoːɐ̯ˌʃʁaɪ̯bn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #19,080 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 generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for vorschreiben, with forms such as "ovrschreiben", "vorcshreiben", and "vorrschreiben". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "vorschreibt", "verschreiben", 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 vorschreiben, spelled V-O-R-S-C-H-R-E-I-B-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1jemandem Vorschriften machen; jemandem sagen, was er tun soll
- 2jemandem Buchstaben, ein Wort aufzeichen/aufschreiben, damit diese Person es nachmachen kann
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ovrschreiben,vorcshreiben,vorrschreiben,vorscchreiben,vorscheriben,vorschhreiben,vorschrebien,vorschreibben,vorschreibenn,vorschreibne,vorschreiebn,vorschrieben,vorschrreiben,vorscrheiben,vorshcreiben,vorsschreiben,vosrchreiben,vroschreiben,vvorschreiben
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for vorschreiben
Misspelling Variants of "vorschreiben"
Frequency rank: #19,080 in German
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