bean
[biːn]
The verdict
“bean” has 5 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #32,940. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,940
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - die Bohne
Corpus desk
Index DE-bean · bean · German
bean · rank #32,940 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,940
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH beantragten
Nearest frequency peer: beantragten (+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 „bean“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Bahia
Bahia
67,065 corpus weight
- Bariton
Bariton
67,063 corpus weight
- bean
bean
67,061 corpus weight
- beantragten
beantragten
67,060 corpus weight
- bedeuteten
bedeuteten
67,059 corpus weight
- befürchteten
befürchteten
67,058 corpus weight
What this shows „bean“ 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 | bean |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [biːn] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #32,940 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „bean“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around bean (IPA [biːn]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,940 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "die Bohne".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for bean, with forms such as "baen", "bbean", and "beann". 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, "BN", "bei", "bin", 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 its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is bean, spelled B-E-A-N.
Definition
- 1die Bohne
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bean appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Yesterday I ate lots of beans. – I can smell it.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- baen
- bbean
- beann
- bena
- eban
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bean - 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 "bean", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).