BietervsbreiterTell them apart

Quick tell: Bieter is a noun, breiter is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“Bieter” is a noun and “breiter” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#29,508
“Bieter” frequency rank
#6,519
“breiter” frequency rank
36027
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Bieter breiter
Definition jemand, der ein Gebot abgibt; der bietet Nominativ Singular Maskulinum der starken Flexion des Positivs des Adjektivs breit

Where the eye mixes Bieter and breiter

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence. Bieter runs 6 letters (CVVCVC) against breiter's 7 (CCVVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
Bieter
7 ch
breiter

Visual trap between Bieter and breiter

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: Bieter is [ˈbiːtɐ] while breiter is [ˈbʁaɪ̯tɐ]. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 36027, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Bieter is recorded at frequency rank #29,508, classified as anoun, pronounced [ˈbiːtɐ]. breiter is at rank #6,519, tagged as anadj, pronounced [ˈbʁaɪ̯tɐ].

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 36027, this pair ranks #1,625,782 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of Bieter vs breiter

Shared letters: beirt. Private to "Bieter": -. Private to "breiter": -.

"Bieter" · 6 letters · shape CVVCVC  ·  "breiter" · 7 letters · shape CCVVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Bieter ← bbieter · beiter · bieetr · bieterr · bietre · bietter · biteer · ibeter
  • breiter ← bbreiter · beriter · breietr · breiterr · breitre · breitter · bretier · brieter

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "Bieter" for "breiter" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Bieter" is a noun and "breiter" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "Bieter" or "breiter"?
"breiter" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #6,519 in our German list, against #29,508 for "Bieter". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Eye-level mix-up between "Bieter" and "breiter" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Bieter" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "breiter" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,625,782 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Bieter" and "breiter" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Bieres vs Bieter". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #1,625,782 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list