bald
[balt]
The verdict
“bald” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #417. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #417
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - kurze Zeit danach
Corpus desk
Index DE-bald · bald · German
bald · rank #417 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #417
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH alten
Nearest frequency peer: alten (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “bald”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Pro
Pro
99,587 corpus weight
- Wasser
Wasser
99,586 corpus weight
- alten
alten
99,585 corpus weight
- bald
bald
99,584 corpus weight
- erhalten
erhalten
99,583 corpus weight
- Junge
Junge
99,582 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “bald” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | bald |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | [balt] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #417 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bald” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around bald (IPA [balt]), anadverb. Corpus frequency is #417 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for bald, with forms such as "abld", "badl", and "baldd". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Bau", "BRD", "Bär", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 bald, spelled B-A-L-D.
Definition
- 1kurze Zeit danach
- 2beinahe, fast
- 3ohne große Verzögerung, schnell
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bald appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bald nun ist Weihnachtszeit.
Komm bald! Nein, komm eher; komm, sobald es irgendwie geht!
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abld
- badl
- baldd
- balld
- bbald
- blad
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bald - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bald", 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).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.