verkorten
The verdict
“verkorten” 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) - Raccourcir, abréger.
Corpus desk
Index FR-verkorten · verkorten · French
verkorten · 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 | verkorten |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « verkorten » en français
Rare enough to double-check
verkorten is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Raccourcir, abréger.".
No misspelling variants are generated for verkorten in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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. The correct French form is verkorten, spelled V-E-R-K-O-R-T-E-N.
Definition
- 1Raccourcir, abréger.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how verkorten appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Een touw verkorten.
Een boek verkorten.
Synonyms
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.