sammeln
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,784
in German word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
12
similar word pairs
sammeln is aGermanverb. It means: systematisch suchen, erhalten und aufbewahren einer abgegrenzten Art beziehungsweise Kategorie bestimmter Gegenstände oder Informationen Pronounced [ˈzaml̩n]. It ranks #2,784 in German word frequency. Often confused with Samuel and summen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sammeln |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈzaml̩n] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #2,784 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for sammeln is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈzaml̩n]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,784 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 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 sammeln, with forms such as "asmmeln", "sameln", and "samemln". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "Samuel", "summen", "sammle", 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 sammeln, spelled S-A-M-M-E-L-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1systematisch suchen, erhalten und aufbewahren einer abgegrenzten Art beziehungsweise Kategorie bestimmter Gegenstände oder Informationen
- 2unsystematisch suchen, erhalten und darauf folgend benutzen oder verbrauchen
- 3vereinigen, versammeln
- 4sich auf etwas konzentrieren, die Gedanken ordnen
- 5anhäufen
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: asmmeln,sameln,samemln,sammelln,sammelnn,sammenl,sammlen,smameln,ssammeln
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sammeln
Misspelling Variants of "sammeln"
Frequency rank: #2,784 in German
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