bleich
[blaɪ̯ç]
The verdict
“bleich” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #38,648. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,648
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine blasse oder verblasste, sehr helle, unintensive Farbe habend
Corpus desk
Index DE-bleich · bleich · German
bleich · rank #38,648 · 9 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,648
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH blanken
Nearest frequency peer: blanken (-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 „bleich“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Betz
Betz
61,358 corpus weight
- billigere
billigere
61,355 corpus weight
- blanken
blanken
61,354 corpus weight
- bleich
bleich
61,353 corpus weight
- bleiche
bleiche
61,352 corpus weight
- bleichen
bleichen
61,351 corpus weight
What this shows „bleich“ 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 | bleich |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [blaɪ̯ç] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #38,648 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „bleich“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around bleich (IPA [blaɪ̯ç]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #38,648 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "eine blasse oder verblasste, sehr helle, unintensive Farbe habend".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for bleich, with forms such as "bbleich", "belich", and "blecih". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "Blick", "Bloch", "bleiche", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is bleich, spelled B-L-E-I-C-H.
Definition
- 1eine blasse oder verblasste, sehr helle, unintensive Farbe habend
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bleich appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Du bist ja ganz bleich, bist du krank?“
Schlimmer noch sei die Situation für den an Diabetes erkrankten Ahmed, erzählt Bashar. Ahmed hält den Arm seiner Schwester fest umklammert. Er ist abgemagert und bleich im Gesicht.
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbleich
- belich
- blecih
- bleicch
- bleichh
- bleihc
- bliech
- blleich
- lbeich
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bleich - 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 "bleich", 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).