fühlen
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,290
in German word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
fühlen is aGermanverb. It means: per Tastsinn beziehungsweise allgemein über die Haut wahrnehmen oder erkunden Pronounced [ˈfyːlən]. It ranks #1,290 in German word frequency. Often confused with fühlt and führe.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fühlen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈfyːlən] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,290 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for fühlen is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfyːlən]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,290 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 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 fühlen, with forms such as "ffühlen", "fhülen", and "füheln". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fühlt", "führe", "Fülle", 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 fühlen, spelled F-Ü-H-L-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1per Tastsinn beziehungsweise allgemein über die Haut wahrnehmen oder erkunden
- 2sich selbst in einem bestimmten Zustand wahrnehmen
- 3von sich selbst ein gewisses Bild haben
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ffühlen,fhülen,füheln,fühhlen,fühlenn,fühllen,fühlne,fülhen,üfhlen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for fühlen
Misspelling Variants of "fühlen"
Frequency rank: #1,290 in German
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