Zuläufen
[ˈt͡suːlɔɪ̯fn̩]
The verdict
“Zuläufen” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dativ Plural des Substantivs Zulauf
Corpus desk
Index DE-zulaufen · Zuläufen · German
Zuläufen · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "Z" 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 | Zuläufen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt͡suːlɔɪ̯fn̩] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Zuläufen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Zuläufen is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈt͡suːlɔɪ̯fn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dativ Plural des Substantivs Zulauf".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Zuläufen, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Zuläufen, spelled Z-U-L-Ä-U-F-E-N.
Definition
- 1Dativ Plural des Substantivs Zulauf
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.