glauben
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#659
in German word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
glauben is aGermanverb. It means: religiös sein, an einen oder mehrere Götter glauben; in seinem Glauben überzeugt sein Pronounced [ˈɡlaʊ̯bn̩]. It ranks #659 in German word frequency. Often confused with Guben and glaubt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | glauben |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈɡlaʊ̯bn̩] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #659 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for glauben is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈɡlaʊ̯bn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #659 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 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for glauben, with forms such as "galuben", "gglauben", and "glabuen". 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, "Guben", "glaubt", "Graben", 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 glauben, spelled G-L-A-U-B-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1religiös sein, an einen oder mehrere Götter glauben; in seinem Glauben überzeugt sein
- 2einen Sachverhalt für wahr/richtig/glaubwürdig halten, aber die Möglichkeit zulassen, dass dies widerlegt wird; meinen
- 3etwas für möglich und wahrscheinlich halten; etwas vermuten, annehmen, mutmaßen, der Meinung sein
- 4sich auf jemanden vertrauensvoll verlassen
- 5jemandem vertrauen, auf jemanden vertrauen; auf etwas setzen
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: galuben,gglauben,glabuen,glaubben,glaubenn,glaubne,glauebn,gllauben,gluaben,lgauben
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "glauben"
Frequency rank: #659 in German
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