verzwijgen
The verdict
“verzwijgen” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Taire, se taire sur quelque chose, passer sous silence.
Corpus desk
Index FR-verzwijgen · verzwijgen · French
verzwijgen · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 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 | verzwijgen |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « verzwijgen » en français
Rare enough to double-check
verzwijgen is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Taire, se taire sur quelque chose, passer sous silence.".
Zero misspellings are on record for verzwijgen in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 verzwijgen, spelled V-E-R-Z-W-I-J-G-E-N.
Definition
- 1Taire, se taire sur quelque chose, passer sous silence.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how verzwijgen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Een feit verzwijgen.
Niets te verzwijgen hebben.
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.