blühen
[ˈblyːən]
The verdict
“blühen” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #14,759. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,759
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Blüten aufweisen; eine oder mehrere Blüten aus sich herausgewachsen haben, in Blüte sein
Corpus desk
Index DE-bluhen · blühen · German
blühen · rank #14,759 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,759
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Bodo
Nearest frequency peer: Bodo (+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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „blühen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Bischofs
Bischofs
85,245 corpus weight
- Blickwinkel
Blickwinkel
85,244 corpus weight
- blühen
blühen
85,242 corpus weight
- Bodo
Bodo
85,241 corpus weight
- bohren
bohren
85,240 corpus weight
- britischer
britischer
85,239 corpus weight
What this shows „blühen“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
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 | blühen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈblyːən] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #14,759 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „blühen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around blühen (IPA [ˈblyːən]), averb. Corpus frequency is #14,759 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for blühen, with forms such as "bblühen", "blhüen", and "bllühen". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Blume", "Blüte", "blüht", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 blühen, spelled B-L-Ü-H-E-N.
Definition
- 1Blüten aufweisen; eine oder mehrere Blüten aus sich herausgewachsen haben, in Blüte sein
- 2sehr gut laufen, sich wirtschaftlich gut entwickeln
- 3etwas (zumeist Negatives) jemandem geschehen, von jemandem erlebt, erfahren werden
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how blühen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Kirschbäume blühen Anfang Mai.
Das Geschäft blüht und er konnte hohe Einnahmen verbuchen.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bblühen
- blhüen
- bllühen
- blüehn
- blühenn
- blühhen
- blühne
- bülhen
- lbühen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of blühen - 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.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "blühen", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).