Bias
[ˈbaɪ̯əs]
The verdict
“Bias” has 5 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #36,224. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,224
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - nachvollziehbarer, systematischer Fehler in einer Untersuchung, Erhebung, der ein immer gleich verzerrtes und damit mehr oder weniger falsches Ergebnis verursacht
Corpus desk
Index DE-bias · Bias · German
Bias · rank #36,224 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,224
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Betäubungsmit…
Nearest frequency peer: Betäubungsmittel (-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 „Bias“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- besoffene
besoffene
63,780 corpus weight
- bestieg
bestieg
63,779 corpus weight
- Betäubungsm…
Betäubungsmittel
63,778 corpus weight
- Bias
Bias
63,777 corpus weight
- Billion
Billion
63,775 corpus weight
- Blablabla
Blablabla
63,774 corpus weight
What this shows „Bias“ 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 | Bias |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbaɪ̯əs] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #36,224 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Bias“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around Bias (IPA [ˈbaɪ̯əs]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,224 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for Bias, with forms such as "bais", "bbias", and "biass". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "BS", "bin", "Bus", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is Bias, spelled B-I-A-S.
Definition
- 1nachvollziehbarer, systematischer Fehler in einer Untersuchung, Erhebung, der ein immer gleich verzerrtes und damit mehr oder weniger falsches Ergebnis verursacht
- 2Vormagnetisierung bei Tonbändern
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Bias appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Wenn wir Urteilsfehler verstehen wollen, müssen wir sowohl Bias – die systematische Abweichung, die Verzerrung – als auch Noise – die Zufallsstreuung, das störende Rauschen – verstehen.“
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bais
- bbias
- biass
- bisa
- ibas
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Bias - 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 "Bias", 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).