Impuls
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#11,901
in German word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
Impuls is aGermannoun. It means: Anstoß, Anregung Pronounced [ɪmˈpʊls]. Often confused with impulse and Impulsen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Impuls |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɪmˈpʊls] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #11,901 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Impuls is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɪmˈpʊls]. Corpus data places it at rank #11,901 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 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 Impuls, with forms such as "immpuls", "implus", and "imppuls". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "impulse", "Impulsen", 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 Impuls, spelled I-M-P-U-L-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Anstoß, Anregung
- 2Spannungs- oder Stromstoß von kurzer Dauer
- 3Produkt aus Kraft und Einwirkungsdauer, Produkt aus Masse und Geschwindigkeit
- 4innerer Drang, Trieb, plötzliche Eingebung
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: immpuls,implus,imppuls,impulls,impulss,impusl,imupls,ipmuls,mipuls
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Impuls
Misspelling Variants of "Impuls"
Frequency rank: #11,901 in German
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