vorübergehend
[foˈʁyːbɐˌɡeːənt]
The verdict
“vorübergehend” has 20 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #6,022. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,022
- frequency rank, German
- 4,163
- “V” headwords
- 20
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - nur kurze Zeit dauernd
Corpus desk
Index DE-vorubergehend · vorübergehend · German
vorübergehend · rank #6,022 · 20 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,022
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 20 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,163
- PHOTO-FINISH vielfach
Nearest frequency peer: vielfach (-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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „vorübergehend“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- vermisse
vermisse
93,982 corpus weight
- Verstärkung
Verstärkung
93,981 corpus weight
- vielfach
vielfach
93,980 corpus weight
- vorübergehe…
vorübergehend
93,979 corpus weight
- Weimar
Weimar
93,978 corpus weight
- weitaus
weitaus
93,977 corpus weight
What this shows „vorübergehend“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
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 | vorübergehend |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [foˈʁyːbɐˌɡeːənt] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #6,022 |
| Misspellings tracked | 20 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „vorübergehend“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 20 spelling variants around vorübergehend (IPA [foˈʁyːbɐˌɡeːənt]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #6,022 among 4,163 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "nur kurze Zeit dauernd".
Our generated misspelling index lists 20 likely wrong-spelling variants for vorübergehend, with forms such as "ovrübergehend", "vorbüergehend", and "vorrübergehend". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "vorübergehende", "vorübergehenden", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is vorübergehend, spelled V-O-R-Ü-B-E-R-G-E-H-E-N-D.
Definition
- 1nur kurze Zeit dauernd
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vorübergehend appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Linie 8 fährt nur vorübergehend nicht über die Eisenbahnstraße.
Das Übergrößengeschäft bleibt wegen Krankheit vorübergehend geschlossen.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ovrübergehend
- vorbüergehend
- vorrübergehend
- vorübbergehend
- vorübegrehend
- vorübereghend
- vorübergeehnd
- vorübergehedn
- vorübergehendd
- vorübergehennd
- vorübergehhend
- vorübergehned
- vorüberggehend
- vorübergheend
- vorüberrgehend
- vorübregehend
- vorüebrgehend
- voürbergehend
- vroübergehend
- vvorübergehend
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vorübergehend - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "vorübergehend", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (20 here; floor ≥5).