Bourbon

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Bourbon is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbœːɐ̯bən]. Corpus data places it at rank #20,868 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Amerikanischer Whiskey, dessen Basis 51 % Mais und 49 % Roggen enthält. Der destillierte Bourbon wird in innen angekohlten Eichenfässern gelagert. Dies macht seinen milden Geschmack aus.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for Bourbon, with forms such as "bbourbon", "borubon", and "boubron". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Bonbon", 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 Bourbon, spelled B-O-U-R-B-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.