klären
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,900
in German word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
klären is aGermanverb. It means: mitteilen, wie sich etwas in Wahrheit verhält Pronounced [ˈklɛːʁən]. It ranks #3,900 in German word frequency. Often confused with klärt and Klaue.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | klären |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈklɛːʁən] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,900 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for klären is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈklɛːʁən]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,900 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 klären, with forms such as "kklären", "kllären", and "klräen". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "klärt", "Klaue", "klarer", 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 klären, spelled K-L-Ä-R-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1mitteilen, wie sich etwas in Wahrheit verhält
- 2von Schmutz befreien
- 3von drohenden Spielsituationen befreien
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: kklären,kllären,klräen,kläern,klärenn,klärne,klärren,kälren,lkären
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for klären
Misspelling Variants of "klären"
Frequency rank: #3,900 in German
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