quillen
Letters
7 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
quillen is aGermanverb. It means: herausfließen/hervorbrechen/erklingen; etwas bricht aus etwas hervor, verteilt sich von einem Punkt aus Pronounced [ˈkvɪlən].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quillen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈkvɪlən] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for quillen is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkvɪlən]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for quillen in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns.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 quillen, spelled Q-U-I-L-L-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1herausfließen/hervorbrechen/erklingen; etwas bricht aus etwas hervor, verteilt sich von einem Punkt aus
- 2anschwellen/sich vergrößern; als saugfähiges Material sein Volumen durch die Aufnahme von einer Flüssigkeit vergrößern
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