glühen
[ˈɡlyːən]
The verdict
“glühen” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #32,571. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,571
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - vor Hitze in oranger bis rötlicher Farbe leuchten
Corpus desk
Index DE-gluhen · glühen · German
glühen · rank #32,571 · 9 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,571
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH glücklichsten
Nearest frequency peer: glücklichsten (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „glühen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Gigabyte
Gigabyte
67,433 corpus weight
- glücklichst…
glücklichsten
67,431 corpus weight
- glühen
glühen
67,430 corpus weight
- golem
golem
67,429 corpus weight
- Grabmal
Grabmal
67,428 corpus weight
- griffe
griffe
67,427 corpus weight
What this shows „glühen“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | glühen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈɡlyːən] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #32,571 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „glühen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around glühen (IPA [ˈɡlyːən]), averb. Corpus frequency is #32,571 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for glühen, with forms such as "gglühen", "glhüen", and "gllühen". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "guten", "glüht", "Guben", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is glühen, spelled G-L-Ü-H-E-N.
Definition
- 1vor Hitze in oranger bis rötlicher Farbe leuchten
- 2in oranger oder rötlicher Farbe leuchten
- 3Fieber haben, fiebern
- 4begeistert sein
- 5stark genutzt werden (beispielsweise Telefone, soziale Netzwerke)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how glühen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Das Feuer glüht so stark, dass man kaum hinsehen kann.
„Die noch heiße Asche aus der Feuerstelle vor der Hütte glüht jetzt unter der Bettdecke in einer Pfanne vor sich hin. Sie spendet ein wenig Wärme […].“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- gglühen
- glhüen
- gllühen
- glüehn
- glühenn
- glühhen
- glühne
- gülhen
- lgühen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of glühen - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "glühen", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).