grölen

[ˈɡʁøːlən]

/[ˈɡʁøːlən]/ verb

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The verdict

“grölen” is uncommon German (frequency #72,497 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#72,497
frequency rank, German
5,117
“G” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - laut und unschön singen oder schreien

Corpus desk

Index DE-grolen · grölen · German

grölen · rank #72,497 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #72,497
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,117
  • PHOTO-FINISH grübel

Nearest frequency peer: grübel (+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 „grölen“

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

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for grölen
PropertyValue
Headwordgrölen
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[ˈɡʁøːlən]
Letters6
Frequency rank#72,497
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „grölen“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.grölenfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

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

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „grübel“ (#72,498), „gusseiserne“ (#72,500), „Gänserndorf“ (#72,502). Unter 5,117 „G“-Lemmata liegt „grölen“ bei #72,497. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

grölen is uncommon German at frequency #72,497 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈɡʁøːlən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "laut und unschön singen oder schreien".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for grölen, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 grölen, spelled G-R-Ö-L-E-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    laut und unschön singen oder schreien

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how grölen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Wenn die ersten Liter Bier getrunken sind, fangen die jungen Männer an zu grölen und nach den Bedienungen zu grabschen.
  2. „‚Wir atmen nicht. Der Ort ist nahe Jedenew, wir hören die Jedenewer Bauern singen, grölen, Klarinette, Akkordeon spielen und hören ihre Lieder seit Stunden bereits, alte Partisanenlieder, sie spielen und singen und grölen auf wundersame Weise melodiös. […].‘ So beginnt Kevin Vennemann seinen Roman, seinen ersten.“

This word in other languages

bawl(English)berrear(Español)beugler(Français)

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 "grölen"?
"grölen" is spelled G-R-Ö-L-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈɡʁøːlən].
What does "grölen" mean?
As a verb, "grölen" means: laut und unschön singen oder schreien
How do you pronounce "grölen"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "grölen" is [ˈɡʁøːlən]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "grölen" come from?
"grölen" is a German word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

grübel#72,498gütige#72,504Heuert#72,531Geneva#72,459

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list