rollen
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,610
in German word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
rollen is aGermanverb. It means: während einer Vor- oder Rückwärtsbewegung sich selbst um die eigene Achse drehen; die Bewegung eines Rades Pronounced [ˈʁɔlən]. It ranks #2,610 in German word frequency. Often confused with roten and Rosen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rollen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈʁɔlən] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #2,610 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for rollen is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʁɔlən]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,610 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for rollen, with forms such as "orllen", "rlolen", and "roleln". 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, "roten", "Rosen", "rollt", 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 rollen, spelled R-O-L-L-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1während einer Vor- oder Rückwärtsbewegung sich selbst um die eigene Achse drehen; die Bewegung eines Rades
- 2etwas wie [1] bewegen
- 3etwas bewegen, das zylindrisch geformt ist oder auf Rollen steht
- 4die längsseitige Bewegung eines Schiffes oder Bootes bei Wellengang
- 5das Trällern eines Vogels
- 6jemandem zu seinem eigenen Vorteil beziehungsweise zur allgemeinen Belustigung eine Unwahrheit erzählen, sich über jemanden lustig machen
- 7Aussprache des Buchstaben "r" mit Vibrieren der Zungenspitze oder Vibrieren der Uvula
- 8ein lautes Geräusch erzeugen
- 9in eine runde Form bringen, geraten
- 10etwas durch Drehen einpacken
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: orllen,rlolen,roleln,rolen,rollenn,rollne,rrollen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for rollen
Misspelling Variants of "rollen"
Frequency rank: #2,610 in German
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Nearby German words
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