airbag
[ɛʁbaɡ]
The verdict
“airbag” has 8 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #37,343. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,343
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Airbag, Prallkissen
Corpus desk
Index DE-airbag · airbag · German
airbag · rank #37,343 · 8 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,343
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH agreement
Nearest frequency peer: agreement (-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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „airbag“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- abzuliefern
abzuliefern
62,661 corpus weight
- agreement
agreement
62,659 corpus weight
- airbag
airbag
62,658 corpus weight
- Aktionären
Aktionären
62,657 corpus weight
- Albanischen
Albanischen
62,656 corpus weight
- Allradantri…
Allradantrieb
62,655 corpus weight
What this shows „airbag“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | airbag |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɛʁbaɡ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #37,343 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „airbag“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around airbag (IPA [ɛʁbaɡ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #37,343 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for airbag, with forms such as "aibrag", "airabg", and "airbagg". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "airbus", "Airbags", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is airbag, spelled A-I-R-B-A-G.
Definition
- 1Airbag, Prallkissen
- 2Busen, Brust, Vorbau
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aibrag
- airabg
- airbagg
- airbbag
- airbga
- airrbag
- aribag
- iarbag
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of airbag - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "airbag", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).