lullen

/[ˈlʊlən]/ verb

Letters

6 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

lullen is aGermanverb. It means: jemanden (meist Kleinkinder) mit beruhigenden Worten oder Gesang in den Schlaf bringen Pronounced [ˈlʊlən].

Key facts for lullen
PropertyValue
Headwordlullen
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[ˈlʊlən]
Letters6
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

lullen is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for lullen is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈlʊlən]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for lullen in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 lullen, spelled L-U-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. 1
    jemanden (meist Kleinkinder) mit beruhigenden Worten oder Gesang in den Schlaf bringen
  2. 2
    jemanden mit bestimmten psychologischen Methoden in einen unwirklichen, wirklichkeitsfernen Zustand, in einen Traum, in einen hypnotischen Zustand bringen, eine Illusion hervorrufen
  3. 3
    an der Mutterbrust, anderen Körperteilen oder geeigneten Dingen saugen
  4. 4
    eine Melodie vor sich hin summen, ohne Text singen
  5. 5
    urinieren (bei Kleinkindern)

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "lullen"?
"lullen" is spelled L-U-L-L-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈlʊlən].
What does "lullen" mean?
As a verb, "lullen" means: jemanden (meist Kleinkinder) mit beruhigenden Worten oder Gesang in den Schlaf bringen
How do you pronounce "lullen"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "lullen" is [ˈlʊlən]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "lullen" come from?
"lullen" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.