Freund
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#670
in German word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
18
similar word pairs
Freund is aGermannoun. It means: ein sehr nahestehendes Wesen, für das man freundschaftliche und kameradschaftliche Gefühle entwickelt hat Pronounced [fʁɔɪ̯nt]. It ranks #670 in German word frequency. Often confused with fund and freut.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Freund |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [fʁɔɪ̯nt] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #670 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Freund is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [fʁɔɪ̯nt]. Corpus data places it at rank #670 in overall German word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 5 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 Freund, with forms such as "ferund", "ffreund", and "frenud". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "fund", "freut", "freute", 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 Freund, spelled F-R-E-U-N-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ein sehr nahestehendes Wesen, für das man freundschaftliche und kameradschaftliche Gefühle entwickelt hat
- 2Person, mit welcher man in einer Beziehung ist
- 3ein Anhänger von etwas
- 4Anrede einer Person männlichen Geschlechts
- 5Gesinnungsgenosse im politischen Sinne; besonders im Plural, mit Artikel, historisch, ironisch, in der DDR: die Freunde Sowjetbürger, Russen (zurückzuführen auf den übermäßigen Gebrauch der floskelhaften Losung „дружба – Freundschaft“ (Druschba-Freundschaft))
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ferund,ffreund,frenud,freudn,freundd,freunnd,frreund,fruend,rfeund
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Freund
Misspelling Variants of "Freund"
Frequency rank: #670 in German
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