Gräuel
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#45,326
in German word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Gräuel is aGermannoun. It means: eine erschreckend grausame Handlung, öfters eine Handlung von abnormaler oder illegaler Grausamkeit durch eine bewaffnete Streitmacht gegenüber Zivilisten oder Gefangenen Pronounced [ˈɡʁɔɪ̯əl]. Often confused with Graus and graut.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gräuel |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈɡʁɔɪ̯əl] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #45,326 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Gräuel is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈɡʁɔɪ̯əl]. Corpus data places it at rank #45,326 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Gräuel, with forms such as "ggräuel", "grräuel", and "gruäel". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Graus", "graut", "grave", 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 Gräuel, spelled G-R-Ä-U-E-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1eine erschreckend grausame Handlung, öfters eine Handlung von abnormaler oder illegaler Grausamkeit durch eine bewaffnete Streitmacht gegenüber Zivilisten oder Gefangenen
- 2etwas, das Grauen oder Schrecken verursacht
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ggräuel,grräuel,gruäel,gräeul,gräuell,gräule,gäruel,rgäuel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "Gräuel"
Frequency rank: #45,326 in German
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