branch
[brɑːn(t)ʃ]
The verdict
“branch” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #43,071. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,071
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - holziger Teil eines Baumes, der aus dem Stamm wächst und sich normalerweise teilt; Ast, Zweig
Corpus desk
Index DE-branch · branch · German
branch · rank #43,071 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,071
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH bow
Nearest frequency peer: bow (-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 „branch“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- bläulich
bläulich
56,934 corpus weight
- blühte
blühte
56,933 corpus weight
- bow
bow
56,931 corpus weight
- branch
branch
56,930 corpus weight
- brasilianis…
brasilianischer
56,929 corpus weight
- brennendes
brennendes
56,927 corpus weight
What this shows „branch“ 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 | branch |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [brɑːn(t)ʃ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #43,071 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „branch“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around branch (IPA [brɑːn(t)ʃ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #43,071 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for branch, with forms such as "barnch", "bbranch", and "bracnh". 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. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Brand", "Bruch", "Brauch", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 branch, spelled B-R-A-N-C-H.
Definition
- 1holziger Teil eines Baumes, der aus dem Stamm wächst und sich normalerweise teilt; Ast, Zweig
- 2der Nebenfluss, der Flussarm
- 3die Nebenstrecke
- 4der Zweig, der Abschnitt
- 5die Branche, der Zweig; die Zweigstelle, die Filiale
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- barnch
- bbranch
- bracnh
- brancch
- branchh
- branhc
- brannch
- brnach
- brranch
- rbanch
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of branch - 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 "branch", 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).