berufen
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,563
in German word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
berufen is anGermanadj. It means: besonders/mehr als andere fähig/geeignet für Aufgabe oder Amt Pronounced [bəˈʁuːfn̩]. It ranks #3,563 in German word frequency. Often confused with Berufs and beruft.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | berufen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [bəˈʁuːfn̩] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #3,563 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for berufen is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [bəˈʁuːfn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,563 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for berufen, with forms such as "bberufen", "berfuen", and "berrufen". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Berufs", "beruft", "beugen", 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 berufen, spelled B-E-R-U-F-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1besonders/mehr als andere fähig/geeignet für Aufgabe oder Amt
- 2in ein hohes Amt eingesetzt; auch religiös: von göttlicher Instanz/Schicksal für besondere Aufgabe erwählt/gefordert
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bberufen,berfuen,berrufen,beruefn,berufenn,beruffen,berufne,beurfen,breufen,ebrufen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for berufen
Misspelling Variants of "berufen"
Frequency rank: #3,563 in German
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Nearby German words
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