Bulle
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#14,260
in German word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Bulle is aGermannoun. It means: männliches Hausrind, das geschlechtsreif ist Pronounced [ˈbʊlə]. Often confused with Busse and bunte.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bulle |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbʊlə] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #14,260 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Bulle is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbʊlə]. Corpus data places it at rank #14,260 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for Bulle, with forms such as "bbulle", "blule", and "bulel". 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, "Busse", "bunte", "Burke", 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 Bulle, spelled B-U-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1männliches Hausrind, das geschlechtsreif ist
- 2geschlechtsreifes Männchen verschiedener Arten des Großwilds, vor allem der Antilopen, Elche, Elefanten, Hirsche, Giraffen, Nashörner, Robben, Seekühe, Wale
- 3Mann, der eine hervorstechend kräftige, jedoch plump und ungeschlacht wirkende Statur besitzt
- 4Beamter der Polizei, insbesondere der Kriminalpolizei
- 5Person, die einen einträglichen, führenden Posten innehat
- 6Börsenspekulant, dessen Handeln, hinsichtlich der weiteren Marktentwicklung, durch die optimistische Annahme einer erwarteten Hausse gekennzeichnet ist
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbulle,blule,bulel,ublle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Bulle
Misspelling Variants of "Bulle"
Frequency rank: #14,260 in German
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Nearby German words
Other entries that begin with the letter B in our German index: