Bastion
[basˈti̯oːn]
The verdict
“Bastion” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #30,464. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,464
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - auch vorgezogener Verteidigungspunkt einer Festung
Corpus desk
Index DE-bastion · Bastion · German
Bastion · rank #30,464 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,464
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Barometer
Nearest frequency peer: Barometer (-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 „Bastion“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- BaFin
BaFin
69,540 corpus weight
- Bankier
Bankier
69,539 corpus weight
- Barometer
Barometer
69,538 corpus weight
- Bastion
Bastion
69,537 corpus weight
- Bauabschnitt
Bauabschnitt
69,536 corpus weight
- Baumgarten
Baumgarten
69,535 corpus weight
What this shows „Bastion“ 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 | Bastion |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [basˈti̯oːn] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #30,464 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Bastion“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Bastion (IPA [basˈti̯oːn]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,464 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "auch vorgezogener Verteidigungspunkt einer Festung".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Bastion, with forms such as "abstion", "basiton", and "basstion". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Boston", "Bestien", "basteln", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 Bastion, spelled B-A-S-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1auch vorgezogener Verteidigungspunkt einer Festung
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Bastion appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Diese Bastion ist uneinnehmbar.
„Einer zweifelhaften Legende zufolge hielten sie noch das Kapitol, und auch das nur, weil die heiligen Gänse der Juno, der Gemahlin des obersten römischen Gottes Jupiter, die ebenfalls auf dem Kapitol verehrt wurde, durch ihr aufgeregtes Geschnatter verhindert haben sollen, daß die Kelten in einem nächtlichen Überraschungscoup auch noch diese letzte Basti…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abstion
- basiton
- basstion
- bastino
- bastionn
- bastoin
- basttion
- batsion
- bbastion
- bsation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Bastion - 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 "Bastion", 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).