Beirut
[baɪ̯ˈʁuːt]
The verdict
“Beirut” has 8 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #21,902. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,902
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hauptstadt des Libanons
Corpus desk
Index DE-beirut · Beirut · German
Beirut · rank #21,902 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,902
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH begleiteten
Nearest frequency peer: begleiteten (-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 „Beirut“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- befasste
befasste
78,102 corpus weight
- befreite
befreite
78,101 corpus weight
- begleiteten
begleiteten
78,100 corpus weight
- Beirut
Beirut
78,099 corpus weight
- bekanntwerd…
bekanntwerden
78,098 corpus weight
- benutz
benutz
78,097 corpus weight
What this shows „Beirut“ 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 | Beirut |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [baɪ̯ˈʁuːt] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #21,902 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Beirut“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Beirut (IPA [baɪ̯ˈʁuːt]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #21,902 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Hauptstadt des Libanons".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Beirut, with forms such as "bbeirut", "beirrut", and "beirtu". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Bert", "brut", "Beruf", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Beirut, spelled B-E-I-R-U-T.
Definition
- 1Hauptstadt des Libanons
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Beirut appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„In Beirut war eine Autobombe explodiert, und nun zeigten sie die zertrümmerten Häuser, die weinenden Augenzeugen, die zerrissenen Leichen.“
„Diese Süßigkeiten da habe ich letzte Woche aus Beirut mitgebracht.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbeirut
- beirrut
- beirtu
- beirutt
- beiurt
- beriut
- bierut
- ebirut
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Beirut - 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 "Beirut", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).