dunklen
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,111
in German word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
13
similar word pairs
dunklen is anGermanadj. It means: Genitiv Singular Maskulinum der starken Flexion des Adjektivs dunkel Pronounced [ˈdʊŋklən]. It ranks #4,111 in German word frequency. Often confused with dünnen and dunkler.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dunklen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ˈdʊŋklən] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #4,111 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for dunklen is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈdʊŋklən]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,111 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 20 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for dunklen, with forms such as "ddunklen", "dnuklen", and "duknlen". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "dünnen", "dunkler", "dunkles", 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 dunklen, spelled D-U-N-K-L-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Genitiv Singular Maskulinum der starken Flexion des Adjektivs dunkel
- 2Akkusativ Singular Maskulinum der starken Flexion des Adjektivs dunkel
- 3Genitiv Singular Neutrum der starken Flexion des Adjektivs dunkel
- 4Dativ Plural der starken Flexion des Adjektivs dunkel
- 5Genitiv Singular Maskulinum der schwachen Flexion des Adjektivs dunkel
- 6Dativ Singular Maskulinum der schwachen Flexion des Adjektivs dunkel
- 7Akkusativ Singular Maskulinum der schwachen Flexion des Adjektivs dunkel
- 8Genitiv Singular Femininum der schwachen Flexion des Adjektivs dunkel
- 9Dativ Singular Femininum der schwachen Flexion des Adjektivs dunkel
- 10Genitiv Singular Neutrum der schwachen Flexion des Adjektivs dunkel
- 11Dativ Singular Neutrum der schwachen Flexion des Adjektivs dunkel
- 12Plural der schwachen Flexion des Adjektivs dunkel
- 13Genitiv Singular Maskulinum der gemischten Flexion des Adjektivs dunkel
- 14Dativ Singular Maskulinum der gemischten Flexion des Adjektivs dunkel
- 15Akkusativ Singular Maskulinum der gemischten Flexion des Adjektivs dunkel
- 16Genitiv Singular Femininum der gemischten Flexion des Adjektivs dunkel
- 17Dativ Singular Femininum der gemischten Flexion des Adjektivs dunkel
- 18Genitiv Singular Neutrum der gemischten Flexion des Adjektivs dunkel
- 19Dativ Singular Neutrum der gemischten Flexion des Adjektivs dunkel
- 20Plural der gemischten Flexion des Adjektivs dunkel
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddunklen,dnuklen,duknlen,dunkklen,dunklenn,dunkllen,dunklne,dunlken,dunnklen,udnklen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for dunklen
Misspelling Variants of "dunklen"
Frequency rank: #4,111 in German
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Nearby German words
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