Bahnhof
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,800
in German word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
Bahnhof is aGermannoun. It means: Ort, an dem Züge halten und Personen ein- und aussteigen sowie Güter verladen werden Pronounced [ˈbaːnˌhoːf]. It ranks #1,800 in German word frequency. Often confused with Bahnhöfe and Bahnhofs.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bahnhof |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbaːnˌhoːf] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,800 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Bahnhof is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbaːnˌhoːf]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,800 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Bahnhof, with forms such as "abhnhof", "bahhnhof", and "bahhnof". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Bahnhöfe", "Bahnhofs", "Bahnhöfen", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Bahnhof, spelled B-A-H-N-H-O-F, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ort, an dem Züge halten und Personen ein- und aussteigen sowie Güter verladen werden
- 2Ort, an dem Züge halten und Personen ein- und aussteigen sowie Güter verladen werden
- 3zu einem Bahnhof^([1]) gehörendes öffentliches Gebäude, in dem sich zum Beispiel Fahrkartenschalter, Kioske und Wartemöglichkeiten befinden
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abhnhof,bahhnhof,bahhnof,bahnhfo,bahnhhof,bahnhoff,bahnnhof,bahnohf,banhhof,bbahnhof,bhanhof
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Bahnhof
Misspelling Variants of "Bahnhof"
Frequency rank: #1,800 in German
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