Bodo
[ˈboːdo]
The verdict
“Bodo” has 5 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #14,760. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,760
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - männlicher Vorname
Corpus desk
Index DE-bodo · Bodo · German
Bodo · rank #14,760 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,760
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH blühen
Nearest frequency peer: blühen (-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 „Bodo“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Bischofs
Bischofs
85,245 corpus weight
- Blickwinkel
Blickwinkel
85,244 corpus weight
- blühen
blühen
85,242 corpus weight
- Bodo
Bodo
85,241 corpus weight
- bohren
bohren
85,240 corpus weight
- britischer
britischer
85,239 corpus weight
What this shows „Bodo“ 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 | Bodo |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈboːdo] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #14,760 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Bodo“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around Bodo (IPA [ˈboːdo]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #14,760 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "männlicher Vorname".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for Bodo, with forms such as "bbodo", "bdoo", and "boddo". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Bot", "Box", "boy", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is Bodo, spelled B-O-D-O.
Definition
- 1männlicher Vorname
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbodo
- bdoo
- boddo
- bood
- obdo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Bodo - 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 "Bodo", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).