berühren
[bəˈʁyːʁən]
The verdict
“berühren” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #6,512. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,512
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mit dem Äußeren seines Körpers mit einer Sache oder einer Person in Kontakt kommen
Corpus desk
Index DE-beruhren · berühren · German
berühren · rank #6,512 · 12 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,512
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH berühmt
Nearest frequency peer: berühmt (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “berühren”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Beleuchtung
Beleuchtung
93,492 corpus weight
- Benutzung
Benutzung
93,491 corpus weight
- berühmt
berühmt
93,490 corpus weight
- berühren
berühren
93,489 corpus weight
- besprochen
besprochen
93,488 corpus weight
- beteiligen
beteiligen
93,487 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “berühren” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | berühren |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [bəˈʁyːʁən] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #6,512 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “berühren” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around berühren (IPA [bəˈʁyːʁən]), averb. Corpus frequency is #6,512 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for berühren, with forms such as "bberühren", "berhüren", and "berrühren". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "berührt", "beruhte", "bewahren", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 German form is berühren, spelled B-E-R-Ü-H-R-E-N.
Definition
- 1mit dem Äußeren seines Körpers mit einer Sache oder einer Person in Kontakt kommen
- 2einen bestimmten Inhalt ansprechen, zum Beispiel ein Thema
- 3zu einem Gefühl anregen, zum Beispiel zu Trauer, Nachdenklichkeit oder Unmut
- 4sexuellen Umgang haben
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how berühren appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Er berührt behutsam die Schneide des Messers.
„Spür mich, komm zu mir und berühr mich, nimm von mir die Erinnerung, lös mich aus meinem Bann.“ - „Erinnerung“, Cats
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bberühren
- berhüren
- berrühren
- berühern
- berühhren
- berührenn
- berührne
- berührren
- berürhen
- beürhren
- breühren
- ebrühren
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of berühren - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "berühren", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
You've looked up "berühren". Here's where to go from here.
- "berühren" maps to 18 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "berührt". View pair
- 12 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #6,512 among German headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more German words in the "B" letter cohort. B–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.