suhlen
[ˈzuːlən]
The verdict
“suhlen” is uncommon German (frequency #83,360 among 107,600 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,360
- frequency rank, German
- 107,600
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - sich wälzen (im Schlamm)
| 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) |
Where “suhlen” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
suhlen is uncommon German at frequency #83,360 among 107,600 “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
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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Using “suhlen”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is S-U-H-L-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.