erbrechen
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#17,871
in German word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
erbrechen is aGermanverb. It means: seinen Mageninhalt durch den Mund entleeren; sich übergeben Pronounced [ɛɐ̯ˈbʁɛçn̩]. Often confused with erbrecht and erreichen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | erbrechen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ɛɐ̯ˈbʁɛçn̩] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #17,871 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for erbrechen is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɛɐ̯ˈbʁɛçn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #17,871 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 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for erbrechen, with forms such as "ebrrechen", "erbbrechen", and "erberchen". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "erbrecht", "erreichen", "errechnen", 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 erbrechen, spelled E-R-B-R-E-C-H-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1seinen Mageninhalt durch den Mund entleeren; sich übergeben
- 2seinen Mageninhalt durch den Mund entleeren; sich übergeben
- 3etwas oral aus dem Magen ausscheiden
- 4etwas gewaltsam öffnen
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ebrrechen,erbbrechen,erberchen,erbrcehen,erbrecchen,erbrecehn,erbrechenn,erbrechhen,erbrechne,erbrehcen,erbrrechen,errbechen,errbrechen,rebrechen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for erbrechen
Misspelling Variants of "erbrechen"
Frequency rank: #17,871 in German
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Nearby German words
Other entries that begin with the letter E in our German index: