Rune
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#40,805
in German word usage
Misspellings
3
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Rune is aGermannoun. It means: älteste Schriftzeichen der Germanen Pronounced [ˈʁuːnə]. Often confused with Rus and Ruth.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Rune |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʁuːnə] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #40,805 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Rune is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʁuːnə]. Corpus data places it at rank #40,805 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 3 documented wrong-spelling variants for Rune, with forms such as "rnue", "rrune", and "ruen". 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, "Rus", "Ruth", "Rute", 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 Rune, spelled R-U-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1älteste Schriftzeichen der Germanen
- 2älteres finnisches Lied
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rnue,rrune,ruen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Rune
Misspelling Variants of "Rune"
Frequency rank: #40,805 in German
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Nearby German words
Other entries that begin with the letter R in our German index: