aufblühen
[ˈaʊ̯fˌblyːən]
The verdict
“aufblühen” is a moderately-common German word, ranked #45,766 in German word frequency and used as a verb.
- #45,766
- frequency rank, German
- 9
- letters
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - sich blühend öffnen, die Blüten (langsam) auseinanderfalten; anfangen, sich zu voller Blüte zu entfalten, allmählich in Blüte kommen
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 | aufblühen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈaʊ̯fˌblyːən] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #45,766 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “aufblühen” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for aufblühen is 9 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈaʊ̯fˌblyːən]. Corpus data places it at rank #45,766 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for aufblühen, with forms such as "afublühen", "aubflühen", and "aufbblühen". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "aufbauen", "Aufbauten", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is aufblühen, spelled A-U-F-B-L-Ü-H-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1sich blühend öffnen, die Blüten (langsam) auseinanderfalten; anfangen, sich zu voller Blüte zu entfalten, allmählich in Blüte kommen
- 2(von Gegenden, Orten) mit Pflanzen übersät sein, deren Blüten (gerade anfangen) sich blühend (zu) entfalten
- 3eine rosige Hautfarbe annehmen
- 4(vom Gesicht) freundliche, heitere Züge bekommen
- 5(zumeist von jungen Menschen) eine Entwicklungsstufe erreichen, in dem vorhandene Anlagen zur vollen Entfaltung kommen
- 6zur Entfaltung kommen; eine bestimmte (zumeist als positiv angesehene) Entwicklung nehmen; Aufschwung gewinnen
- 7neue Lebenskraft spüren, eine lebensbejahende Haltung oder positive Stimmung gewinnen und dies auch erkennen lassen
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: afublühen,aubflühen,aufbblühen,aufblhüen,aufbllühen,aufblüehn,aufblühenn,aufblühhen,aufblühne,aufbülhen,auffblühen,auflbühen,uafblühen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of aufblühen - 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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Using “aufblühen”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is A-U-F-B-L-Ü-H-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈaʊ̯fˌblyːən] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “aufbauen” - see the side-by-side comparison. aufblühen vs aufbauen
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
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