verzwijgen

noun

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.

Key facts for verzwijgen
PropertyValue
Headwordverzwijgen
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « verzwijgen » en français

verzwijgenreste hors des 100.000 mots français les plus fréquents, dans la longue queue du vocabulaire technique, archaïque ou rare, là où le doute d'orthographe frappe.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Taire, se taire sur quelque chose, passer sous silence.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how verzwijgen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Een feit verzwijgen.
  2. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "verzwijgen"?
"verzwijgen" is spelled V-E-R-Z-W-I-J-G-E-N.
What does "verzwijgen" mean?
As a noun, "verzwijgen" means: Taire, se taire sur quelque chose, passer sous silence.
What language does "verzwijgen" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list