glühend

[ˈɡlyːənt]

/[ˈɡlyːənt]/ verb

The verdict

“glühend” is uncommon German (frequency #52,897 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#52,897
frequency rank, German
5,117
“G” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partizip Präsens des Verbs glühen

Corpus desk

Index DE-gluhend · glühend · German

glühend · rank #52,897 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #52,897
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,117
  • PHOTO-FINISH Golfstaaten

Nearest frequency peer: Golfstaaten (+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.

Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „glühend“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „glühend“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for glühend
PropertyValue
Headwordglühend
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[ˈɡlyːənt]
Letters7
Frequency rank#52,897
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „glühend“ im Deutschen

Diese Skala geht vom Kern des Alltagdeutschen (links) bis zum seltenen Langschwanz (rechts).glühendfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Ticks laufen logarithmisch; jeder ist rund zehnmal seltener. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Golfstaaten“ (#52,898), „gewölbte“ (#52,895), „grausames“ (#52,899). Unter 5,117 „G“-Lemmata liegt „glühend“ bei #52,897. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

glühend is uncommon German at frequency #52,897 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈɡlyːənt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partizip Präsens des Verbs glühen".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for glühend, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 glühend, spelled G-L-Ü-H-E-N-D.

Definition

  1. 1
    Partizip Präsens des Verbs glühen

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "glühend"?
"glühend" is spelled G-L-Ü-H-E-N-D. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈɡlyːənt].
What does "glühend" mean?
As a verb, "glühend" means: Partizip Präsens des Verbs glühen
How do you pronounce "glühend"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "glühend" is [ˈɡlyːənt]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "glühend" come from?
"glühend" is a German word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "glühend", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list