board
[bɔːd]
The verdict
“board” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #8,528. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,528
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ein Brett, eine Planke: ein längliches, zugeschnittenes Stück Holz, welches um ein Mehrfaches länger als Höhe und Breite ist
Corpus desk
Index DE-board · board · German
board · rank #8,528 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,528
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Blues
Nearest frequency peer: Blues (-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 „board“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- blockieren
blockieren
91,476 corpus weight
- blonde
blonde
91,475 corpus weight
- Blues
Blues
91,474 corpus weight
- board
board
91,473 corpus weight
- Budapest
Budapest
91,472 corpus weight
- Bundesstaat
Bundesstaat
91,471 corpus weight
What this shows „board“ 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 | board |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [bɔːd] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #8,528 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „board“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around board (IPA [bɔːd]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,528 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 9 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for board, with forms such as "baord", "bboard", and "boadr". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "BRD", "bor", "Bord", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is board, spelled B-O-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1ein Brett, eine Planke: ein längliches, zugeschnittenes Stück Holz, welches um ein Mehrfaches länger als Höhe und Breite ist
- 2ein Spielbrett
- 3ein Tisch, besonders einen Esstisch
- 4Verpflegung: Nahrung, die man regelmäßig bekommt
- 5Vorstand, leitender Ausschuss: Führungsgruppe (Komitee, Gremium)
- 6Karton, Pappe
- 7Anschlagtafel, Wandtafel
- 8eine Leiterplatte
- 9ein System zur Diskussion (Website)
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- baord
- bboard
- boadr
- boardd
- boarrd
- borad
- obard
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of board - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "board", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).