Berg
[bɛʁk]
The verdict
“Berg” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #2,018. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,018
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - große, steile Erhebung auf der Landoberfläche der Erde und anderer Himmelskörper und des Meeresbodens
Corpus desk
Index DE-berg · Berg · German
Berg · rank #2,018 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,018
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH behalten
Nearest frequency peer: behalten (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Berg”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Anwendung
Anwendung
97,986 corpus weight
- Baum
Baum
97,985 corpus weight
- behalten
behalten
97,984 corpus weight
- Berg
Berg
97,983 corpus weight
- bislang
bislang
97,982 corpus weight
- Bonn
Bonn
97,981 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Berg” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | Berg |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [bɛʁk] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #2,018 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Berg” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Berg (IPA [bɛʁk]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,018 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Berg, with forms such as "bberg", "begr", and "bergg". 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, "Br", "BG", "big", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Berg, spelled B-E-R-G.
Definition
- 1große, steile Erhebung auf der Landoberfläche der Erde und anderer Himmelskörper und des Meeresbodens
- 2feste Erdkruste, Untertagebereich; „im Berg“
- 3Haufen, Anhäufung
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Berg appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Der bestiegene Berg verliert sein Numinosum, das so faszinierte. Er hinterlässt eine innere Leere.“
Die Berge grüßen uns.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bberg
- begr
- bergg
- berrg
- breg
- ebrg
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Berg - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Berg", 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 (6 here; floor ≥5).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.