Bassist
[baˈsɪst]
The verdict
“Bassist” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #29,022. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,022
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sänger mit Bassstimme
Corpus desk
Index DE-bassist · Bassist · German
Bassist · rank #29,022 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,022
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Balsam
Nearest frequency peer: Balsam (-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 „Bassist“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- autoritäre
autoritäre
70,982 corpus weight
- Badehose
Badehose
70,981 corpus weight
- Balsam
Balsam
70,980 corpus weight
- Bassist
Bassist
70,979 corpus weight
- BBL
BBL
70,978 corpus weight
- Beauftragter
Beauftragter
70,977 corpus weight
What this shows „Bassist“ 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 | Bassist |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [baˈsɪst] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #29,022 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Bassist“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Bassist (IPA [baˈsɪst]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,022 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Bassist, with forms such as "abssist", "basisst", and "basist". 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, "Basis", "Baptist", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Bassist, spelled B-A-S-S-I-S-T.
Definition
- 1Sänger mit Bassstimme
- 2Person, die Kontrabass spielt
- 3Person, die Bassgitarre spielt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Bassist appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mein Musiklehrer ist Bassist.
„Den besten vielleicht hat vor mehr als hundert Jahren der Bassist Lablache gemacht.“
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abssist
- basisst
- basist
- bassisst
- bassistt
- bassits
- basssit
- baßist
- bbassist
- bsasist
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Bassist - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "Bassist", 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).