dünn
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,934
in German word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
dünn is anGermanadj. It means: von geringer Dicke Pronounced [dʏn]. It ranks #5,934 in German word frequency. Often confused with duo and Dur.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dünn |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [dʏn] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #5,934 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for dünn is 4 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [dʏn]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,934 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for dünn, with forms such as "ddünn", "dnün", and "dün". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "duo", "Dur", "Dus", 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 dünn, spelled D-Ü-N-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1von geringer Dicke
- 2wenig ausmachend, von geringem Ausmaß
- 3viel Wasser oder Flüssigkeit enthaltend; wenig gehaltvoll an Nährstoffen
- 4wenig gehaltvoll in der Aussage, wenig fundiert
- 5kraftlos, leise
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddünn,dnün,dün,üdnn
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for dünn
Misspelling Variants of "dünn"
Frequency rank: #5,934 in German
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