battery
[bætərɪ]
The verdict
“battery” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #48,753. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,753
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Energiespeicher und eine Stromquelle, die auf der Umwandlung von chemischer in elektrische Energie basiert; Batterie
Corpus desk
Index DE-battery · battery · German
battery · rank #48,753 · 9 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,753
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Barnabas
Nearest frequency peer: Barnabas (-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 „battery“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Backstein
Backstein
51,251 corpus weight
- Bankwesen
Bankwesen
51,250 corpus weight
- Barnabas
Barnabas
51,249 corpus weight
- battery
battery
51,248 corpus weight
- Bauchmuskeln
Bauchmuskeln
51,247 corpus weight
- Bauers
Bauers
51,246 corpus weight
What this shows „battery“ 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 | battery |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [bætərɪ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #48,753 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „battery“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around battery (IPA [bætərɪ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #48,753 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for battery, with forms such as "abttery", "batery", and "batetry". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "Butter", "bitter", "better", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is battery, spelled B-A-T-T-E-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Energiespeicher und eine Stromquelle, die auf der Umwandlung von chemischer in elektrische Energie basiert; Batterie
- 2Straftat, bei der es um widerrechtliche Anwendung von Gewalt, sei es schlagen, spucken oder bloße Berührung, geht; Angriff, Schlagen
- 3Bestürmung, Beschießung
- 4Gewehrkammer
- 5Akkumulator
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how battery appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„The 21-year-old male who threw a water bottle at Kyrie Irving faces assault and battery with a dangerous weapon charge and will be arraigned on Tuesday, Boston PD say.“
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abttery
- batery
- batetry
- batterry
- batteryy
- batteyr
- battrey
- bbattery
- btatery
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of battery - 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 "battery", 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).