Biografie
[bioɡʁaˈfiː]
The verdict
“Biografie” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #12,251. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,251
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lebensbeschreibung einer Person
Corpus desk
Index DE-biografie · Biografie · German
Biografie · rank #12,251 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,251
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH bildenden
Nearest frequency peer: bildenden (-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 „Biografie“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- betrachte
betrachte
87,753 corpus weight
- bilde
bilde
87,752 corpus weight
- bildenden
bildenden
87,751 corpus weight
- Biografie
Biografie
87,750 corpus weight
- BKA
BKA
87,749 corpus weight
- brother
brother
87,748 corpus weight
What this shows „Biografie“ 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 | Biografie |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [bioɡʁaˈfiː] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #12,251 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Biografie“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Biografie (IPA [bioɡʁaˈfiː]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,251 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Lebensbeschreibung einer Person".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Biografie, with forms such as "bbiografie", "bigorafie", and "biogarfie". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Biographie", "Biografien", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Biografie, spelled B-I-O-G-R-A-F-I-E.
Definition
- 1Lebensbeschreibung einer Person
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Biografie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Über viele prominente Personen sind bereits Biografien erschienen, z. B. über den deutschen Bundespräsidenten Horst Köhler.
„Nicht nur Schmähbriefe, sondern auch erstaunlich viele zustimmende Briefe erreichen mich, von jungen Leuten, die sich bei mir dafür bedanken, dass ich die Biografie unserer ganzen Generation in Ägypten geschrieben habe.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbiografie
- bigorafie
- biogarfie
- bioggrafie
- biografei
- biograffie
- biograife
- biogrfaie
- biogrrafie
- biorgafie
- boigrafie
- ibografie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Biografie - 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 "Biografie", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).