Bambus
[ˈbambʊs]
The verdict
“Bambus” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #25,905. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,905
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bezeichnung für eine vielgestaltige Unterfamilie aus der Familie der Süßgräser, eine baumartig wachsende verholzende Taxa mit schlanken, holzigen, nicht selten verzweigten, oft meterlangen Halmen, ...
Corpus desk
Index DE-bambus · Bambus · German
Bambus · rank #25,905 · 9 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,905
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH awesome
Nearest frequency peer: awesome (-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 „Bambus“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Ausweise
Ausweise
74,099 corpus weight
- automobile
automobile
74,098 corpus weight
- awesome
awesome
74,097 corpus weight
- Bambus
Bambus
74,096 corpus weight
- Bankkonto
Bankkonto
74,095 corpus weight
- Bartsch
Bartsch
74,093 corpus weight
What this shows „Bambus“ 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 | Bambus |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbambʊs] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #25,905 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Bambus“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Bambus (IPA [ˈbambʊs]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #25,905 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Bezeichnung für eine vielgestaltige Unterfamilie aus der Familie der Süßgräser, eine baumartig wachsende verholzende Taxa mit schlanken, holzigen, nicht selten verzweigten, oft meterlangen Halmen, ...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Bambus, with forms such as "abmbus", "babmus", and "bambbus". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Baus", "Babys", "Bambi", 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 Bambus, spelled B-A-M-B-U-S.
Definition
- 1Bezeichnung für eine vielgestaltige Unterfamilie aus der Familie der Süßgräser, eine baumartig wachsende verholzende Taxa mit schlanken, holzigen, nicht selten verzweigten, oft meterlangen Halmen, luftigen, zierlichen Blätterkronen, grasartigen Blättern und bisweilen riesigen Blütenrispen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Bambus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Große Pandas essen gerne Bambus.
Ein Bambus kann ziemlich hoch werden, wenn er nicht vorher von einem großen Panda gegessen wird.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abmbus
- babmus
- bambbus
- bambsu
- bambuss
- bammbus
- bamubs
- bbambus
- bmabus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Bambus - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "Bambus", 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).