bereuen
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#13,320
in German word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
bereuen is aGermanverb. It means: Reue über etwas empfinden Pronounced [bəˈʁɔɪ̯ən]. Often confused with Bremen and bergen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bereuen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [bəˈʁɔɪ̯ən] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #13,320 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for bereuen is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [bəˈʁɔɪ̯ən]. Corpus data places it at rank #13,320 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Reue über etwas empfinden".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for bereuen, with forms such as "bbereuen", "beeruen", and "bereeun". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Bremen", "bergen", "bereut", and more, 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 bereuen, spelled B-E-R-E-U-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Reue über etwas empfinden
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbereuen,beeruen,bereeun,bereuenn,bereune,berreuen,berueen,breeuen,ebreuen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bereuen
Misspelling Variants of "bereuen"
Frequency rank: #13,320 in German
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