Bauwerk
[ˈbaʊ̯ˌvɛʁk]
The verdict
“Bauwerk” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #13,316. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,316
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - von Menschen gebauter, ortsfester Gegenstand
Corpus desk
Index DE-bauwerk · Bauwerk · German
Bauwerk · rank #13,316 · 10 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,316
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Baumwolle
Nearest frequency peer: Baumwolle (-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 „Bauwerk“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- association
association
86,688 corpus weight
- aufgemacht
aufgemacht
86,687 corpus weight
- Baumwolle
Baumwolle
86,686 corpus weight
- Bauwerk
Bauwerk
86,685 corpus weight
- Bebauung
Bebauung
86,684 corpus weight
- befriedigen
befriedigen
86,683 corpus weight
What this shows „Bauwerk“ 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 | Bauwerk |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbaʊ̯ˌvɛʁk] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #13,316 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Bauwerk“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Bauwerk (IPA [ˈbaʊ̯ˌvɛʁk]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,316 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Bauwerk, with forms such as "abuwerk", "bauewrk", and "bauwekr". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "Beiwerk", "Bauwerke", "Bauwerks", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Bauwerk, spelled B-A-U-W-E-R-K.
Definition
- 1von Menschen gebauter, ortsfester Gegenstand
- 2durch seine architektonische Gestaltung größerer, bedeutender Bau
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Bauwerk appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hier sind alle gewässertechnischen Bauwerke an und in der Elbe verzeichnet.
„Manchmal fand ich mich schon mitten in dem verschlungenen Bauwerk vor, manchmal schritt ich erst durch eine düstere Tannenlandschaft darauf zu.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abuwerk
- bauewrk
- bauwekr
- bauwerkk
- bauwerrk
- bauwrek
- bauwwerk
- bawuerk
- bbauwerk
- buawerk
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Bauwerk - 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 "Bauwerk", 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).