Bohrer
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#23,063
in German word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
17
similar word pairs
Bohrer is aGermannoun. It means: stangenartiges Werkzeug zum Herstellen von kreisförmigen Löchern durch drehende Bewegungen Pronounced [ˈboːʁɐ]. Often confused with Boxer and böser.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bohrer |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈboːʁɐ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #23,063 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Bohrer is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈboːʁɐ]. Corpus data places it at rank #23,063 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for Bohrer, with forms such as "bbohrer", "bhorer", and "boherr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "Boxer", "böser", "bohrt", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Bohrer, spelled B-O-H-R-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1stangenartiges Werkzeug zum Herstellen von kreisförmigen Löchern durch drehende Bewegungen
- 2Gerät, in das ein Bohrer^([1]) eingesetzt wird (neben handwerklichen Aufgaben auch für das Tunnelbohren und die Zahnbehandlung im Einsatz)
- 3Person, die beruflich Löcher bohrt
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbohrer,bhorer,boherr,bohhrer,bohrerr,bohrre,bohrrer,borher,obhrer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Bohrer
Misspelling Variants of "Bohrer"
Frequency rank: #23,063 in German
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