Bösewicht
[ˈbøːzəˌvɪçt]
The verdict
“Bösewicht” has 14 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #22,290. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,290
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - jemand, der Böses, Verbrecherisches tut
Corpus desk
Index DE-bosewicht · Bösewicht · German
Bösewicht · rank #22,290 · 14 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,290
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Buckel
Nearest frequency peer: Buckel (-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 „Bösewicht“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Bottrop
Bottrop
77,716 corpus weight
- Brauer
Brauer
77,715 corpus weight
- Buckel
Buckel
77,712 corpus weight
- Bösewicht
Bösewicht
77,711 corpus weight
- carsharing
carsharing
77,709 corpus weight
- coco
coco
77,707 corpus weight
What this shows „Bösewicht“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bösewicht |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbøːzəˌvɪçt] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #22,290 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Bösewicht“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around Bösewicht (IPA [ˈbøːzəˌvɪçt]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,290 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for Bösewicht, with forms such as "bbösewicht", "bsöewicht", and "böeswicht". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Bösewicht, spelled B-Ö-S-E-W-I-C-H-T.
Definition
- 1jemand, der Böses, Verbrecherisches tut
- 2Schelm, Schlingel
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Bösewicht appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ein skrupelloser Bösewicht hat Oma vorgestern die Handtasche entrissen.
Die Diebe waren richtige Bösewichter.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbösewicht
- bsöewicht
- böeswicht
- böseiwcht
- bösewciht
- bösewiccht
- bösewichht
- bösewichtt
- bösewicth
- bösewihct
- bösewwicht
- bössewicht
- bösweicht
- öbsewicht
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Bösewicht - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "Bösewicht", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).