Bakterium
[bakˈteːʁiʊm]
The verdict
“Bakterium” has 13 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #47,235. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,235
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sich teilendes, einzelliges, prokaryotisches Lebewesen ohne Zellkern
Corpus desk
Index DE-bakterium · Bakterium · German
Bakterium · rank #47,235 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #47,235
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH bain
Nearest frequency peer: bain (-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 „Bakterium“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- ausnutzt
ausnutzt
52,769 corpus weight
- Bahnhofsvor…
Bahnhofsvorplatz
52,768 corpus weight
- bain
bain
52,767 corpus weight
- Bakterium
Bakterium
52,766 corpus weight
- barrierefre…
barrierefreien
52,765 corpus weight
- Basketballer
Basketballer
52,764 corpus weight
What this shows „Bakterium“ 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 | Bakterium |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [bakˈteːʁiʊm] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #47,235 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Bakterium“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Bakterium (IPA [bakˈteːʁiʊm]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,235 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "sich teilendes, einzelliges, prokaryotisches Lebewesen ohne Zellkern".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Bakterium, with forms such as "abkterium", "baketrium", and "bakkterium". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Bakterien", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Bakterium, spelled B-A-K-T-E-R-I-U-M.
Definition
- 1sich teilendes, einzelliges, prokaryotisches Lebewesen ohne Zellkern
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Bakterium appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Wollte ein Bakterium seine Gene auch nur verzehnfachen, bräuchte es auch fast die zehnfache Menge an Energie.“
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abkterium
- baketrium
- bakkterium
- bakteirum
- bakterimu
- bakteriumm
- bakterrium
- bakteruim
- baktreium
- baktterium
- batkerium
- bbakterium
- bkaterium
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Bakterium - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "Bakterium", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).