basketball
[ˈbæskɪtˌbɔːl]
The verdict
“basketball” has 14 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #5,249. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,249
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Basketball (Sportart)
Corpus desk
Index DE-basketball · basketball · German
basketball · rank #5,249 · 14 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,249
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Ausrüstung
Nearest frequency peer: Ausrüstung (-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 „basketball“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- ausgegeben
ausgegeben
94,755 corpus weight
- ausländische
ausländische
94,754 corpus weight
- Ausrüstung
Ausrüstung
94,753 corpus weight
- basketball
basketball
94,752 corpus weight
- Bestimmung
Bestimmung
94,751 corpus weight
- betroffene
betroffene
94,750 corpus weight
What this shows „basketball“ 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 | basketball |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbæskɪtˌbɔːl] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #5,249 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „basketball“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around basketball (IPA [ˈbæskɪtˌbɔːl]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,249 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for basketball, with forms such as "absketball", "baksetball", and "basektball". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Basketballer", "Baseball", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is basketball, spelled B-A-S-K-E-T-B-A-L-L.
Definition
- 1Basketball (Sportart)
- 2Ball, mit dem Basketball ^([1]) betrieben wird
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how basketball appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I can't play basketball very well.
I left my basketball on the lawn in front of my house yesterday. Now it's gone.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- absketball
- baksetball
- basektball
- baskebtall
- basketabll
- basketbal
- basketbball
- basketblal
- baskettball
- baskketball
- baskteball
- bassketball
- bbasketball
- bsaketball
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of basketball - 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 "basketball", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).