grillen
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,211
in German word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
grillen is aGermanverb. It means: (im Freien zumeist in geselliger Runde) etwas bei offener Hitze auf dem Rost garen Pronounced [ˈɡʁɪlən]. It ranks #9,211 in German word frequency. Often confused with grillo and grinsen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grillen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈɡʁɪlən] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #9,211 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for grillen is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈɡʁɪlən]. Corpus data places it at rank #9,211 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 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 grillen, with forms such as "ggrillen", "girllen", and "grileln". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "grillo", "grinsen", "Grill", 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 grillen, spelled G-R-I-L-L-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(im Freien zumeist in geselliger Runde) etwas bei offener Hitze auf dem Rost garen
- 2(sich) von der Sonne (ausgiebig, übermäßig) bescheinen lassen; (sich, die Haut oder dergleichen) von der Sonne so stark bräunen, dass eine Hautrötung oder -entzündung hervorgerufen wird
- 3jemanden mit (vielen) Fragen hart bedrängen, zusetzen; jemanden einem langen und andauernden Verhör, Kreuzverhör unterziehen; aufdringlich ausfragen
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ggrillen,girllen,grileln,grilen,grillenn,grillne,grlilen,grrillen,rgillen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for grillen
Misspelling Variants of "grillen"
Frequency rank: #9,211 in German
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