bor
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The verdict
“bor” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #26,793) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #26,793
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bor
Corpus desk
Index DE-bor · bor · German
bor · rank #26,793 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,793
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Bocholt
Nearest frequency peer: Bocholt (-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 „bor“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- bloom
bloom
73,211 corpus weight
- Blümchen
Blümchen
73,210 corpus weight
- Bocholt
Bocholt
73,209 corpus weight
- bor
bor
73,208 corpus weight
- brauen
brauen
73,206 corpus weight
- Bulgaren
Bulgaren
73,204 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „bor“ 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 | bor |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #26,793 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „bor“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bor is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "Br", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced […]. Frequency #26,793 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Gloss: "Bor".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bor, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "Br", "bu", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is bor, spelled B-O-R.
Definition
- 1Bor
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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