berühre

[bəˈʁyːʁə]

/[bəˈʁyːʁə]/ verb

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The verdict

“berühre” is uncommon German (frequency #52,687 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#52,687
frequency rank, German
5,818
“B” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs berühren

Corpus desk

Index DE-beruhre · berühre · German

berühre · rank #52,687 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #52,687
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,818
  • PHOTO-FINISH Berufsunfähig…

Nearest frequency peer: Berufsunfähigkeitsversicherung (-1 rank slots)

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.

Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „berühre“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „berühre“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for berühre
PropertyValue
Headwordberühre
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[bəˈʁyːʁə]
Letters7
Frequency rank#52,687
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „berühre“ im Deutschen

Diese Skala geht vom Kern des Alltagdeutschen (links) bis zum seltenen Langschwanz (rechts).berührefällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Berufsunfähigkeitsversicherung“ (#52,686), „bescheinigte“ (#52,688), „Beschwörung“ (#52,689). Unter 5,818 „B“-Lemmata liegt „berühre“ bei #52,687. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

berühre is uncommon German at frequency #52,687 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [bəˈʁyːʁə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.

berühre has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is berühre, spelled B-E-R-Ü-H-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    1. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs berühren
  2. 2
    1. Person Singular Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv des Verbs berühren
  3. 3
    3. Person Singular Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv des Verbs berühren
  4. 4
    2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs berühren

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "berühre"?
"berühre" is spelled B-E-R-Ü-H-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is [bəˈʁyːʁə].
What does "berühre" mean?
As a verb, "berühre" means: 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs berühren
How do you pronounce "berühre"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "berühre" is [bəˈʁyːʁə]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "berühre" come from?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "berühre", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Babette#52,672Bluttat#52,703aufhöre#52,658Checker#52,734

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list