Borneo
[ˈbɔʁneo]
The verdict
“Borneo” has 8 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #48,020. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,020
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - südostasiatische Insel (Teil der Großen Sundainseln), an der drei Staaten Anteil haben: Brunei, Indonesien und Malaysia
Corpus desk
Index DE-borneo · Borneo · German
Borneo · rank #48,020 · 8 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,020
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH boos
Nearest frequency peer: boos (-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 „Borneo“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- boiler
boiler
51,984 corpus weight
- bonne
bonne
51,983 corpus weight
- boos
boos
51,982 corpus weight
- Borneo
Borneo
51,981 corpus weight
- bourgeois
bourgeois
51,980 corpus weight
- bread
bread
51,979 corpus weight
What this shows „Borneo“ 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 | Borneo |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈbɔʁneo] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #48,020 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Borneo“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Borneo (IPA [ˈbɔʁneo]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #48,020 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "südostasiatische Insel (Teil der Großen Sundainseln), an der drei Staaten Anteil haben: Brunei, Indonesien und Malaysia".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Borneo, with forms such as "bborneo", "bonreo", and "boreno". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "Börse", "Börsen", "bono", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Borneo, spelled B-O-R-N-E-O.
Definition
- 1südostasiatische Insel (Teil der Großen Sundainseln), an der drei Staaten Anteil haben: Brunei, Indonesien und Malaysia
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Borneo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Die Wälder Borneos werden als die ältesten und aus diesem Grund artenreichsten tropischen Regenwälder und Ökosysteme auf dem Planeten angesehen.“
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bborneo
- bonreo
- boreno
- bornneo
- bornoe
- borrneo
- broneo
- obrneo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Borneo - 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 "Borneo", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).