Bistro
[ˈbɪstʁo]
The verdict
“Bistro” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #24,650. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,650
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - kleines, meist einfach gehaltenes Lokal, in dem man Getränke und kleine Mahlzeiten bekommen kann
Corpus desk
Index DE-bistro · Bistro · German
Bistro · rank #24,650 · 9 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,650
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH bisserl
Nearest frequency peer: bisserl (-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 „Bistro“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- bewussten
bewussten
75,354 corpus weight
- biomasse
biomasse
75,353 corpus weight
- bisserl
bisserl
75,352 corpus weight
- Bistro
Bistro
75,351 corpus weight
- bizarre
bizarre
75,350 corpus weight
- blitzschnell
blitzschnell
75,349 corpus weight
What this shows „Bistro“ 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 | Bistro |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbɪstʁo] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #24,650 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Bistro“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Bistro (IPA [ˈbɪstʁo]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,650 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "kleines, meist einfach gehaltenes Lokal, in dem man Getränke und kleine Mahlzeiten bekommen kann".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Bistro, with forms such as "bbistro", "bisrto", and "bisstro". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Bistum", "bist", "biste", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Bistro, spelled B-I-S-T-R-O.
Definition
- 1kleines, meist einfach gehaltenes Lokal, in dem man Getränke und kleine Mahlzeiten bekommen kann
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Bistro appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„In dem Bistro war alles ungewohnt und anders als sonst, denn es war eben französisch.“
„Offen war nur das Bistro neben dem dekorativen, nicht mehr benützten Eingangstor.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbistro
- bisrto
- bisstro
- bistor
- bistrro
- bisttro
- bitsro
- bsitro
- ibstro
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Bistro - 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 "Bistro", 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).