Barbados
[baʁˈbaːdɔs]
The verdict
“Barbados” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #44,470. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,470
- frequency rank, German
- 72,680
- “B” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Inselstaat in der Karibik
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Barbados |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [baʁˈbaːdɔs] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #44,470 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Barbados” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Barbados (IPA [baʁˈbaːdɔs]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #44,470 among 72,680 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Inselstaat in der Karibik".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Barbados, with forms such as "abrbados", "babrados", and "barabdos". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Barbados, spelled B-A-R-B-A-D-O-S.
Definition
- 1Inselstaat in der Karibik
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abrbados
- babrados
- barabdos
- barbaddos
- barbadoss
- barbadso
- barbaods
- barbbados
- barbdaos
- barrbados
- bbarbados
- brabados
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Barbados - 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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Using “Barbados”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is B-A-R-B-A-D-O-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [baʁˈbaːdɔs] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
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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.