Bulimie

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Bulimie is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [buliˈmiː]. Corpus data places it at rank #73,336 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Essstörung, bei der ein Patient immer wieder zwischen Esssucht und Erbrechen schwankt".

Zero misspellings are on record for Bulimie in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Bulimie, spelled B-U-L-I-M-I-E.