baue
[ˈbaʊ̯ə]
The verdict
“baue” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #12,670) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #12,670
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs bauen
Corpus desk
Index DE-baue · baue · German
baue · rank #12,670 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,670
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Azubis
Nearest frequency peer: Azubis (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „baue“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- autonomen
autonomen
87,334 corpus weight
- Autonomie
Autonomie
87,333 corpus weight
- Azubis
Azubis
87,332 corpus weight
- baue
baue
87,331 corpus weight
- bekennen
bekennen
87,329 corpus weight
- beklagten
beklagten
87,328 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „baue“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
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 | baue |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈbaʊ̯ə] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #12,670 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „baue“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for baue is neighbouring look-alikes ("be", "bu", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [ˈbaʊ̯ə]. Frequency #12,670 among 5,818 “B” headwords. 4 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for baue, with forms such as "abue", "baeu", and "bbaue". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "be", "bu", "Bus", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is baue, spelled B-A-U-E.
Definition
- 11. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs bauen
- 21. Person Singular Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv des Verbs bauen
- 33. Person Singular Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv des Verbs bauen
- 42. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs bauen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abue
- baeu
- bbaue
- buae
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of baue - 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 "baue", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).