Birmingham
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The verdict
“Birmingham” has 16 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #29,967. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,967
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Stadt in der englischen Region West Midlands
Corpus desk
Index DE-birmingham · Birmingham · German
Birmingham · rank #29,967 · 16 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,967
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH binäre
Nearest frequency peer: binäre (-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 „Birmingham“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- bezaubernde
bezaubernde
70,037 corpus weight
- Bildmaterial
Bildmaterial
70,036 corpus weight
- binäre
binäre
70,035 corpus weight
- Birmingham
Birmingham
70,034 corpus weight
- bissel
bissel
70,033 corpus weight
- Blinker
Blinker
70,032 corpus weight
What this shows „Birmingham“ 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 | Birmingham |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #29,967 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Birmingham“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around Birmingham (IPA […]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #29,967 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for Birmingham, with forms such as "bbirmingham", "bimringham", and "birimngham". 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, "of", "ii", "TO", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 Birmingham, spelled B-I-R-M-I-N-G-H-A-M.
Definition
- 1Stadt in der englischen Region West Midlands
- 2Stadt im US-Bundesstaat Alabama
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Birmingham appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Er stammte aus Birmingham, Alabama, und sprach mit dem Akzent der dortigen Bevölkerung.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbirmingham
- bimringham
- birimngham
- birmignham
- birmingahm
- birminggham
- birminghamm
- birminghham
- birminghma
- birminhgam
- birminngham
- birmmingham
- birmnigham
- birrmingham
- brimingham
- ibrmingham
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Birmingham - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "Birmingham", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).