Birgit
[ˈbɪʁɡɪt]
The verdict
“Birgit” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #10,824. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,824
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - weiblicher Vorname
Corpus desk
Index DE-birgit · Birgit · German
Birgit · rank #10,824 · 9 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,824
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Bezeichnungen
Nearest frequency peer: Bezeichnungen (-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 „Birgit“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- beurteilt
beurteilt
89,180 corpus weight
- bewundern
bewundern
89,179 corpus weight
- Bezeichnung…
Bezeichnungen
89,178 corpus weight
- Birgit
Birgit
89,177 corpus weight
- Blogs
Blogs
89,176 corpus weight
- Blutdruck
Blutdruck
89,175 corpus weight
What this shows „Birgit“ 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 | Birgit |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈbɪʁɡɪt] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #10,824 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Birgit“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Birgit (IPA [ˈbɪʁɡɪt]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #10,824 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "weiblicher Vorname".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Birgit, with forms such as "bbirgit", "bigrit", and "birggit". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "breit", "birgt", "biegt", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is Birgit, spelled B-I-R-G-I-T.
Definition
- 1weiblicher Vorname
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbirgit
- bigrit
- birggit
- birgitt
- birgti
- birigt
- birrgit
- brigit
- ibrgit
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Birgit - 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 "Birgit", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).