wühle
[ˈvyːlə]
The verdict
“wühle” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs wühlen
Corpus desk
Index DE-wuhle · wühle · German
wühle · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "W" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wühle |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈvyːlə] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „wühle“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
wühle is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈvyːlə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for wühle, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is wühle, spelled W-Ü-H-L-E.
Definition
- 11. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs wühlen
- 21. Person Singular Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv des Verbs wühlen
- 33. Person Singular Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv des Verbs wühlen
- 42. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs wühlen
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.