bergauf
[bɛʁkˈʔaʊ̯f]
The verdict
“bergauf” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #16,931. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,931
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - einen Berg hinauf
Corpus desk
Index DE-bergauf · bergauf · German
bergauf · rank #16,931 · 10 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,931
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH bereitstellen
Nearest frequency peer: bereitstellen (-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 „bergauf“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- beleuchten
beleuchten
83,073 corpus weight
- belästigen
belästigen
83,072 corpus weight
- bereitstell…
bereitstellen
83,071 corpus weight
- bergauf
bergauf
83,070 corpus weight
- Beschuldigt…
Beschuldigten
83,069 corpus weight
- Beschuss
Beschuss
83,068 corpus weight
What this shows „bergauf“ 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 | bergauf |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | [bɛʁkˈʔaʊ̯f] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #16,931 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „bergauf“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around bergauf (IPA [bɛʁkˈʔaʊ̯f]), anadverb. Corpus frequency is #16,931 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "einen Berg hinauf".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for bergauf, with forms such as "bbergauf", "begrauf", and "beraguf". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "Beruf", "Bernau", "Bergbau", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is bergauf, spelled B-E-R-G-A-U-F.
Definition
- 1einen Berg hinauf
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bergauf appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der Weg zur Hütte führt bergauf.
„Im Bild des seinen Felsbrocken vergeblich bergauf wälzenden Sisyphos schließlich ist die Plage des mühsamen, der Schwerkraft unterworfenen Berganstiegs als eine von den Göttern mit Bedacht über die Sterblichen verhängte Strafe gedeutet.“
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbergauf
- begrauf
- beraguf
- bergafu
- bergauff
- berggauf
- berguaf
- berrgauf
- bregauf
- ebrgauf
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bergauf - 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 "bergauf", 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).