Brunnen
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,690
in German word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
17
similar word pairs
Brunnen is aGermannoun. It means: Tiefbauwerk zur Gewinnung von Grundwasser oder Uferfiltrat, manchmal, vor allem früher, auch Bauwerke zur Gewinnung von Quellwasser Pronounced [ˈbʁʊnən]. It ranks #5,690 in German word frequency. Often confused with bunten and Bühnen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Brunnen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbʁʊnən] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,690 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Brunnen is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbʁʊnən]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,690 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 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 Brunnen, with forms such as "bbrunnen", "brnunen", and "brrunnen". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "bunten", "Bühnen", "brüten", 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 Brunnen, spelled B-R-U-N-N-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tiefbauwerk zur Gewinnung von Grundwasser oder Uferfiltrat, manchmal, vor allem früher, auch Bauwerke zur Gewinnung von Quellwasser
- 2Entnahmestelle, oft mit Auffangbecken, zur Bereitstellung in der Nähe oder in der Ferne gewonnenen Wassers
- 3vor allem aus [2] entwickelte Zierbrunnen, die auch der Regulierung des Mikro- oder Raumklimas dienen
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbrunnen,brnunen,brrunnen,brunen,brunenn,brunnenn,brunnne,burnnen,rbunnen
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Misspelling Variants of "Brunnen"
Frequency rank: #5,690 in German
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