bummeln
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#38,660
in German word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
bummeln is aGermanverb. It means: langsam spazieren gehen Pronounced [ˈbʊml̩n]. Often confused with bumsen and bündeln.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bummeln |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈbʊml̩n] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #38,660 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for bummeln is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbʊml̩n]. Corpus data places it at rank #38,660 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 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 bummeln, with forms such as "bbummeln", "bmumeln", and "bumeln". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "bumsen", "bündeln", "Bügeln", 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 bummeln, spelled B-U-M-M-E-L-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1langsam spazieren gehen
- 2nichts weiterbringen, nichts tun
- 3etwas sehr langsam tun
- 4einkaufen gehen, durch die Geschäfte ziehen
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbummeln,bmumeln,bumeln,bumemln,bummelln,bummelnn,bummenl,bummlen,ubmmeln
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bummeln
Misspelling Variants of "bummeln"
Frequency rank: #38,660 in German
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