bos
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The verdict
“bos” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #29,972) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #29,972
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rind; Ochse, Stier
Corpus desk
Index DE-bos · bos · German
bos · rank #29,972 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,972
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Bombenanschlag
Nearest frequency peer: Bombenanschlag (-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 „bos“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- bissel
bissel
70,033 corpus weight
- Blinker
Blinker
70,032 corpus weight
- bolt
bolt
70,031 corpus weight
- Bombenansch…
Bombenanschlag
70,030 corpus weight
- bos
bos
70,029 corpus weight
- Briefmarke
Briefmarke
70,027 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „bos“ 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 | bos |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #29,972 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „bos“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bos is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "Br", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced […]. Frequency #29,972 among 5,818 “B” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
bos doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "Br", "bu", 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 is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is bos, spelled B-O-S.
Definition
- 1Rind; Ochse, Stier
- 2Kuh
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bos appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„qui cum immolaret illo die, quo primum in sella aurea sedit et cum purpurea veste processit, in extis bovis opimi cor non fuit.“
„quid igitur censes Apim illum, sanctum Aegyptiorum bovem, nonne deum videri Aegyptiis?“
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).