bare
[ˈbaːʁə]
The verdict
“bare” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #31,448) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #31,448
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nominativ Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs bar
Corpus desk
Index DE-bare · bare · German
bare · rank #31,448 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,448
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Badeanzug
Nearest frequency peer: Badeanzug (-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 “bare”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- auszulegen
auszulegen
68,556 corpus weight
- Autobiograp…
Autobiographie
68,555 corpus weight
- Badeanzug
Badeanzug
68,554 corpus weight
- bare
bare
68,553 corpus weight
- Barkeeper
Barkeeper
68,552 corpus weight
- Basilikum
Basilikum
68,551 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “bare” 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 | bare |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈbaːʁə] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #31,448 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “bare” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bare is neighbouring look-alikes ("be", "Br", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced [ˈbaːʁə]. Frequency #31,448 among 5,818 “B” headwords. 9 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for bare, with forms such as "barre", "bbare", and "brae". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "be", "Br", "Bau", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is bare, spelled B-A-R-E.
Definition
- 1Nominativ Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs bar
- 2Akkusativ Singular Femininum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs bar
- 3Nominativ Plural alle Genera der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs bar
- 4Akkusativ Plural alle Genera der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs bar
- 5Nominativ Singular alle Genera der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs bar
- 6Akkusativ Singular Femininum der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs bar
- 7Akkusativ Singular Neutrum der schwachen Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs bar
- 8Nominativ Singular Femininum der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs bar
- 9Akkusativ Singular Femininum der gemischten Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs bar
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- barre
- bbare
- brae
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bare - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "bare", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
What to do next
You've looked up "bare". Here's where to go from here.
- "bare" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "be". View pair
- 3 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #31,448 among German headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more German words in the "B" letter cohort. B–Z browse
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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.