grün
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,515
in German word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
grün is anGermanadj. It means: die Farbe Grün zeigend, die im Lichtspektrum zwischen Gelb und Blau liegt (Wellenlänge 520–565 nm). Pronounced [ɡʁyːn]. It ranks #1,515 in German word frequency. Often confused with gut and guy.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grün |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ɡʁyːn] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,515 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for grün is 4 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɡʁyːn]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,515 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for grün, with forms such as "ggrün", "grnü", and "grrün". 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, "gut", "guy", "gun", 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 grün, spelled G-R-Ü-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1die Farbe Grün zeigend, die im Lichtspektrum zwischen Gelb und Blau liegt (Wellenlänge 520–565 nm).
- 2unreif
- 3im Saft stehend, sprossend; lebend, vor Leben strotzend
- 4noch jung, unreif, unerfahren
- 5Speck, Fisch: nicht geräuchert oder gepökelt, roh
- 6zu einer ökologisch orientierten politischen Richtung gehörend
- 7grün^([1]) leuchtend und damit Durchfahrt gestattend
- 8anzeigend, dass die Messgröße im zulässigen Bereich liegt (der auf der Skala in der Regel mit einem grün markierten Intervall ausgewiesen ist)
- 9mit Pflanzen, Bäumen oder Parkanlagen ausgestattet; (grüne^([1])) Natur enthaltend
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ggrün,grnü,grrün,grünn,gürn,rgün
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for grün
Misspelling Variants of "grün"
Frequency rank: #1,515 in German
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