bike
[ˈbaɪ̯kə]
The verdict
“bike” has 5 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #9,516. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,516
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs biken
Corpus desk
Index DE-bike · bike · German
bike · rank #9,516 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,516
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Bibliotheken
Nearest frequency peer: Bibliotheken (-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 „bike“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Berührung
Berührung
90,488 corpus weight
- beschrieb
beschrieb
90,487 corpus weight
- Bibliotheken
Bibliotheken
90,486 corpus weight
- bike
bike
90,485 corpus weight
- bleibst
bleibst
90,484 corpus weight
- blättern
blättern
90,483 corpus weight
What this shows „bike“ 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 | bike |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈbaɪ̯kə] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #9,516 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „bike“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around bike (IPA [ˈbaɪ̯kə]), averb. Corpus frequency is #9,516 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for bike, with forms such as "bbike", "biek", and "bikke". 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, "BK", "bin", "Bio", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 bike, spelled B-I-K-E.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs biken
- 21. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs biken
- 31. Person Singular Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv des Verbs biken
- 43. Person Singular Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv des Verbs biken
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbike
- biek
- bikke
- bkie
- ibke
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bike - 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 "bike", 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).