Bahn
[baːn]
The verdict
“Bahn” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #774. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #774
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Strecke, die von einem Körper in einer vorgeschriebenen Richtung durchmessen wird
Corpus desk
Index DE-bahn · Bahn · German
Bahn · rank #774 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #774
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Antwort
Nearest frequency peer: Antwort (-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 „Bahn“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- ziehen
ziehen
99,230 corpus weight
- überall
überall
99,229 corpus weight
- Antwort
Antwort
99,228 corpus weight
- Bahn
Bahn
99,227 corpus weight
- Berliner
Berliner
99,226 corpus weight
- dennoch
dennoch
99,225 corpus weight
What this shows „Bahn“ 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 | Bahn |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [baːn] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #774 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Bahn“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Bahn (IPA [baːn]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #774 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 12 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Bahn, with forms such as "abhn", "bahhn", and "bahnn". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "BH", "BN", "bin", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Bahn, spelled B-A-H-N.
Definition
- 1Strecke, die von einem Körper in einer vorgeschriebenen Richtung durchmessen wird
- 2in einer bestimmten Länge und Breite vorgegebene Spur für Fahrzeuge
- 3festgelegte Strecke für sportliche Wettkämpfe
- 4ein schienengebundenes Verkehrsmittel
- 5Kurzform für die Eisenbahn
- 6Kurzform für ein Unternehmen, das [5] betreibt
- 7ein breiter Streifen oder ein vorgeschnittenes Teilstück aus einem bestimmten Material
- 8ein glatter, flächiger Teil eines Werkzeugs, das mit dem Werkstoff in Berührung kommt, zum Beispiel die Fläche des Amboss' oder des Hammers
- 9bestimmte strukturierte Verläufe im menschlichen Körper: siehe zum Beispiel Blutbahn, Nervenbahn
- 10das Bild eines Mengenelementes unter der Operation einer Gruppe
- 11die Orbitalbahn
- 12die Umlaufbahn
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Bahn appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cecilie geriet nun endgültig auf die schiefe Bahn.
„Ich habe mein Leben wieder in der Hand, und es verläuft in ruhigen Bahnen.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abhn
- bahhn
- bahnn
- banh
- bbahn
- bhan
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Bahn - 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 "Bahn", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).