barbier
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The verdict
“barbier” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #36,215. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,215
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - der Friseur
Corpus desk
Index DE-barbier · barbier · German
barbier · rank #36,215 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,215
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Baku
Nearest frequency peer: Baku (-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 „barbier“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- bahnt
bahnt
63,789 corpus weight
- bai
bai
63,788 corpus weight
- Baku
Baku
63,787 corpus weight
- barbier
barbier
63,786 corpus weight
- Bataillone
Bataillone
63,785 corpus weight
- BdS
BdS
63,783 corpus weight
What this shows „barbier“ 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 | barbier |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #36,215 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „barbier“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around barbier (IPA […]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,215 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "der Friseur".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for barbier, with forms such as "abrbier", "babrier", and "barbbier". 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, "barrier", "of", "ii", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 barbier, spelled B-A-R-B-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1der Friseur
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abrbier
- babrier
- barbbier
- barbeir
- barbierr
- barbire
- bariber
- barrbier
- bbarbier
- brabier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of barbier - 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 "barbier", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).