Blockbuster
[ˈblɔkˌbastɐ]
The verdict
“Blockbuster” has 18 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #28,108. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,108
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - besonders einträgliches Produkt (Album, Buch, Film, Medikament…)
Corpus desk
Index DE-blockbuster · Blockbuster · German
Blockbuster · rank #28,108 · 18 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,108
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH blinken
Nearest frequency peer: blinken (-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 „Blockbuster“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- bisheriger
bisheriger
71,896 corpus weight
- Blabla
Blabla
71,895 corpus weight
- blinken
blinken
71,894 corpus weight
- Blockbuster
Blockbuster
71,893 corpus weight
- Bohne
Bohne
71,892 corpus weight
- Bosporus
Bosporus
71,891 corpus weight
What this shows „Blockbuster“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Blockbuster |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈblɔkˌbastɐ] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #28,108 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Blockbuster“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around Blockbuster (IPA [ˈblɔkˌbastɐ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,108 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for Blockbuster, with forms such as "bblockbuster", "blcokbuster", and "bllockbuster". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 Blockbuster, spelled B-L-O-C-K-B-U-S-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1besonders einträgliches Produkt (Album, Buch, Film, Medikament…)
- 2besonders zerstörerische Bombe
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Blockbuster appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Die Arzneiunternehmen plagt zudem ein ganz grundsätzliches Leiden: Ihre Entwicklungs-Pipelines sind bedrohlich leer, neue Blockbuster kaum in Sicht - während zugleich viele der derzeitigen Kassenschlager in den nächsten Jahren ihren Patentschutz verlieren und somit billige Nachahmerpräparate auf den Markt drängen werden.“
„Zu unsicher erscheint ihnen offenbar, dass sich mit Spielen für 3-D-Brillen in den nächsten Jahren jene Millionen verdienen lassen, die die Entwicklung eines Blockbusters üblicherweise verschlingt.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bblockbuster
- blcokbuster
- bllockbuster
- blocbkuster
- blocckbuster
- blockbbuster
- blockbsuter
- blockbusetr
- blockbusster
- blockbusterr
- blockbustre
- blockbustter
- blockbutser
- blockkbuster
- blockubster
- blokcbuster
- bolckbuster
- lbockbuster
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Blockbuster - 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 "Blockbuster", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).