führen
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#634
in German word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
führen is aGermanverb. It means: in eine Richtung geleiten, zum Beispiel, indem man nahe neben jemandem geht oder ihn sogar dabei berührt und ihm hilft einen Weg zu finden, den er sonst schwer hätte zu finden Pronounced [ˈfyːʁən]. It ranks #634 in German word frequency. Often confused with fürn and führte.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | führen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈfyːʁən] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #634 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for führen is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfyːʁən]. Corpus data places it at rank #634 in overall German word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 6 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 führen, with forms such as "fführen", "fhüren", and "fühern". 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, "fürn", "führte", "Führer", 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 führen, spelled F-Ü-H-R-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1in eine Richtung geleiten, zum Beispiel, indem man nahe neben jemandem geht oder ihn sogar dabei berührt und ihm hilft einen Weg zu finden, den er sonst schwer hätte zu finden
- 2das Handeln von jemandem oder etwas bestimmen, indem eine Führungsrolle übernommen wird
- 3etwas bei sich haben, es handhaben oder lediglich mit sich tragen
- 4die Konsequenz haben; etwas entstehen lassen
- 5im Sortiment haben
- 6bei einem Wettkampf in Führung liegen
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: fführen,fhüren,fühern,fühhren,führenn,führne,führren,fürhen,üfhren
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for führen
Misspelling Variants of "führen"
Frequency rank: #634 in German
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