BMI
[beːʔɛmˈʔiː]
The verdict
“BMI” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #17,239) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #17,239
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bundesministerium des Inneren, Bundesministerium für Inneres
Corpus desk
Index DE-bmi · BMI · German
BMI · rank #17,239 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,239
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH bestätigten
Nearest frequency peer: bestätigten (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „BMI“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- berühmtesten
berühmtesten
82,765 corpus weight
- bescheidenen
bescheidenen
82,764 corpus weight
- bestätigten
bestätigten
82,763 corpus weight
- BMI
BMI
82,762 corpus weight
- botanischen
botanischen
82,761 corpus weight
- brain
brain
82,760 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „BMI“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
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 | BMI |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | [beːʔɛmˈʔiː] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #17,239 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „BMI“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for BMI is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "Br", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced [beːʔɛmˈʔiː]. Frequency #17,239 among 5,818 “B” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for BMI in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "Br", "bu", 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 its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is BMI, spelled B-M-I.
Definition
- 1Bundesministerium des Inneren, Bundesministerium für Inneres
- 2Body-Mass-Index
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how BMI appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sein BMI ist in einem bedrohlich hohen Bereich.
„Seinen BMI vermutete Tom jenseits der 40 und sein Alter jenseits der 50.“
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
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).