suhlen
[ˈzuːlən]
The verdict
“suhlen” is uncommon German (frequency #83,360 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,360
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sich wälzen (im Schlamm)
Corpus desk
Index DE-suhlen · suhlen · German
suhlen · rank #83,360 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,360
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Suppenküche
Nearest frequency peer: Suppenküche (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „suhlen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Störenfriede
Störenfriede
16,643 corpus weight
- suhlen
suhlen
16,641 corpus weight
- Suppenküche
Suppenküche
16,640 corpus weight
- sweetheart
sweetheart
16,639 corpus weight
- Südamerikan…
Südamerikaner
16,637 corpus weight
- Südende
Südende
16,636 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „suhlen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | suhlen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈzuːlən] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #83,360 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „suhlen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
suhlen is uncommon German at frequency #83,360 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈzuːlən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for suhlen, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is suhlen, spelled S-U-H-L-E-N.
Definition
- 1sich wälzen (im Schlamm)
- 2sich sehr, sehr eingehend und auf eine stagnierende Art und Weise mit etwas beschäftigen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how suhlen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Schweine suhlen sich im Schlamm.
Die Weihnachtszeit über suhlte sie sich in ihrem Unglück, aber im Januar war dann Schluss damit.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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