bohren
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#14,761
in German word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
bohren is aGermanverb. It means: ein rundes Loch in etwas erzeugen, oftmals durch Herauslösen von Spänen mithilfe eines drehenden Werkzeugs Pronounced [ˈboːʁən]. Often confused with bösen and Boxen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bohren |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈboːʁən] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #14,761 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for bohren is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈboːʁən]. Corpus data places it at rank #14,761 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for bohren, with forms such as "bbohren", "bhoren", and "bohern". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bösen", "Boxen", "Boten", 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 bohren, spelled B-O-H-R-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ein rundes Loch in etwas erzeugen, oftmals durch Herauslösen von Spänen mithilfe eines drehenden Werkzeugs
- 2einen Gegenstand (oder auch Finger, Zeh) mit Kraft in etwas hineintreiben, hineinstecken beziehungsweise hindurchtreiben, hindurchstecken
- 3mit dem Finger, Zeh oder einem Gegenstand in etwas drehende Bewegungen ausführen
- 4zur Suche nach zum Beispiel Bodenschätzen oder zur Sammlung von Proben Löcher/Schächte in den Erdboden treiben
- 5mit Wucht in etwas eindringen beziehungsweise es durchdringen
- 6jemanden innerlich peinigen, jemandem Unruhe bereiten
- 7ein Gegenüber hartnäckig zur Erfüllung eines eigenen Wunsches drängen, besonders, ihn zu gewünschten Auskünften drängen
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbohren,bhoren,bohern,bohhren,bohrenn,bohrne,bohrren,borhen,obhren
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bohren
Misspelling Variants of "bohren"
Frequency rank: #14,761 in German
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