Banane
[baˈnaːnə]
The verdict
“Banane” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #13,103. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,103
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - längliche, meist gelbe tropische Frucht
Corpus desk
Index DE-banane · Banane · German
Banane · rank #13,103 · 7 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,103
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH aussetzen
Nearest frequency peer: aussetzen (-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 „Banane“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- ausgebrochen
ausgebrochen
86,901 corpus weight
- ausgezahlt
ausgezahlt
86,900 corpus weight
- aussetzen
aussetzen
86,899 corpus weight
- Banane
Banane
86,898 corpus weight
- bekleidet
bekleidet
86,897 corpus weight
- Bender
Bender
86,896 corpus weight
What this shows „Banane“ 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 | Banane |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [baˈnaːnə] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #13,103 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Banane“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Banane (IPA [baˈnaːnə]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,103 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Banane, with forms such as "abnane", "baanne", and "banaen". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "Bann", "bande", "Bange", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Banane, spelled B-A-N-A-N-E.
Definition
- 1längliche, meist gelbe tropische Frucht
- 2Riesenstaude (Gattung Musa), an der die Banane^([1]) wächst
- 3bananenförmige Bauch- beziehungsweise Gürteltasche
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Banane appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ich esse am liebsten Bananen.
„In Deutschland gilt Unterhaltungskultur immer noch als etwas Schmuddelig-Billiges, von dem alle annehmen, das drehe sich mit einer Blondine, einer Banane und einer Sahnetorte praktisch von selbst.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abnane
- baanne
- banaen
- bannae
- bannane
- bbanane
- bnaane
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Banane - 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 "Banane", 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 (7 here; floor ≥5).