brüllen
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#15,053
in German word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
17
similar word pairs
brüllen is aGermanverb. It means: mit lauter, (oft) unkontrollierter Stimme in tieferer Tonlage erregt äußern; meist aggressiv Pronounced [ˈbʁʏlən]. Often confused with Bulle and Bullen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brüllen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈbʁʏlən] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #15,053 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for brüllen is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbʁʏlən]. Corpus data places it at rank #15,053 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for brüllen, with forms such as "bbrüllen", "brlülen", and "brrüllen". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "Bulle", "Bullen", "brüllt", 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 brüllen, spelled B-R-Ü-L-L-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1mit lauter, (oft) unkontrollierter Stimme in tieferer Tonlage erregt äußern; meist aggressiv
- 2einen lauten Droh-, Imponier-, oder Paarungsruf/-laut ausstoßen
- 3mit großer Lautstärke tönen
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbrüllen,brlülen,brrüllen,brüleln,brülen,brüllenn,brüllne,bürllen,rbüllen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for brüllen
Misspelling Variants of "brüllen"
Frequency rank: #15,053 in German
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Nearby German words
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