blinzeln
[ˈblɪnt͡sl̩n]
The verdict
“blinzeln” is uncommon German (frequency #56,009 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,009
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - die Augen mehrmals ganz kurz schließen und wieder öffnen
Corpus desk
Index DE-blinzeln · blinzeln · German
blinzeln · rank #56,009 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,009
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Blickwinkeln
Nearest frequency peer: Blickwinkeln (-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 „blinzeln“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- biochemische
biochemische
43,995 corpus weight
- biotope
biotope
43,994 corpus weight
- Blickwinkeln
Blickwinkeln
43,993 corpus weight
- blinzeln
blinzeln
43,992 corpus weight
- Blitzmarath…
Blitzmarathon
43,991 corpus weight
- Bogens
Bogens
43,989 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „blinzeln“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blinzeln |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈblɪnt͡sl̩n] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #56,009 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „blinzeln“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
blinzeln is uncommon German at frequency #56,009 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈblɪnt͡sl̩n]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "die Augen mehrmals ganz kurz schließen und wieder öffnen".
Zero misspellings are on record for blinzeln in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is blinzeln, spelled B-L-I-N-Z-E-L-N.
Definition
- 1die Augen mehrmals ganz kurz schließen und wieder öffnen
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how blinzeln appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Maria musste blinzeln, weil ihr bei den Steinmetzarbeiten Staub ins Auge geflogen war.
This word in other languages
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.
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