verfolgen
\fɛʁˈfɔl.ɡən\
The verdict
“verfolgen” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Poursuivre, suivre (une personne).
Corpus desk
Index FR-verfolgen · verfolgen · French
verfolgen · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "V" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | verfolgen |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɛʁˈfɔl.ɡən\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
verfolgen is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \fɛʁˈfɔl.ɡən\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
verfolgen doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is verfolgen, spelled V-E-R-F-O-L-G-E-N.
Definition
- 1Poursuivre, suivre (une personne).
- 2Suivre (un plan ; quelque chose avec attention).
- 3Persécuter.
- 4Poursuivre, harceler de manière insistante.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how verfolgen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Autobahnpolizei verfolgte den Raser.
Die Polizisten verfolgten den verdächtigen Wagen, der mit waghalsigen Manövern versuchte, die Polizei abzuhängen.
Antonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.