bohn
[boːn]
The verdict
“bohn” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #39,253. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,253
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs bohnen
Corpus desk
Index DE-bohn · bohn · German
bohn · rank #39,253 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,253
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH blunt
Nearest frequency peer: blunt (-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 „bohn“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Blasphemie
Blasphemie
60,751 corpus weight
- blickten
blickten
60,750 corpus weight
- blunt
blunt
60,749 corpus weight
- bohn
bohn
60,748 corpus weight
- bombardier
bombardier
60,747 corpus weight
- Bordstein
Bordstein
60,746 corpus weight
What this shows „bohn“ 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 | bohn |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [boːn] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #39,253 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „bohn“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around bohn (IPA [boːn]), averb. Corpus frequency is #39,253 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for bohn, with forms such as "bbohn", "bhon", and "bohhn". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Bot", "Box", "boy", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is bohn, spelled B-O-H-N.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs bohnen
- 21. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs bohnen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbohn
- bhon
- bohhn
- bohnn
- bonh
- obhn
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bohn - 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 "bohn", 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 (6 here; floor ≥5).