blättern
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,518
in German word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
blättern is aGermanverb. It means: die Seiten (eines Buches oder dergleichen) wenden, umschlagen (und dabei den Seiteninhalt überfliegen) Pronounced [ˈblɛtɐn]. It ranks #9,518 in German word frequency. Often confused with Blattes and Brettern.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blättern |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈblɛtɐn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #9,518 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for blättern is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈblɛtɐn]. Corpus data places it at rank #9,518 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for blättern, with forms such as "bblättern", "bllättern", and "bltätern". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Blattes", "Brettern", "Blätter", 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 blättern, spelled B-L-Ä-T-T-E-R-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1die Seiten (eines Buches oder dergleichen) wenden, umschlagen (und dabei den Seiteninhalt überfliegen)
- 2in dünne Schichten auseinandergehen
- 3sich in Blättchen, Bröckchen oder sonstigen dünnen Schichten lösen und abfallen
- 4Karten, Geldscheine oder dergleichen einzeln der Reihe nach irgendwo ablegen
- 5eine Pflanze von einzelnen Blättern befreien
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bblättern,bllättern,bltätern,blätern,blätetrn,blättenr,blätternn,blätterrn,blättren,bälttern,lbättern
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for blättern
Misspelling Variants of "blättern"
Frequency rank: #9,518 in German
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