billy
[ˈbɪli]
The verdict
“billy” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #8,842. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,842
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - der Behälter zum Gebrauch über dem Lagerfeuer
Corpus desk
Index DE-billy · billy · German
billy · rank #8,842 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,842
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH billige
Nearest frequency peer: billige (-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 „billy“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- benötigte
benötigte
91,162 corpus weight
- Besonderheit
Besonderheit
91,161 corpus weight
- billige
billige
91,160 corpus weight
- billy
billy
91,159 corpus weight
- Bundeskanzl…
Bundeskanzlerin
91,158 corpus weight
- Carlo
Carlo
91,156 corpus weight
What this shows „billy“ 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 | billy |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbɪli] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #8,842 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „billy“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around billy (IPA [ˈbɪli]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,842 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 billy, with forms such as "bbilly", "billyy", and "bily". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bull", "boll", "Bulle", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is billy, spelled B-I-L-L-Y.
Definition
- 1der Behälter zum Gebrauch über dem Lagerfeuer
- 2der Stock zum Gebrauch als Waffe
- 3die männliche Ziege
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbilly
- billyy
- bily
- bilyl
- blily
- iblly
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of billy - 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 "billy", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).