brauchbar
[ˈbʁaʊ̯xbaːɐ̯]
The verdict
“brauchbar” has 14 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #21,917. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,917
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - für etwas geeignet
Corpus desk
Index DE-brauchbar · brauchbar · German
brauchbar · rank #21,917 · 14 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,917
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Brandes
Nearest frequency peer: Brandes (-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 „brauchbar“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Bodens
Bodens
78,087 corpus weight
- Brandes
Brandes
78,085 corpus weight
- brauchbar
brauchbar
78,084 corpus weight
- breitere
breitere
78,083 corpus weight
- Briefwahl
Briefwahl
78,082 corpus weight
- Buchhalter
Buchhalter
78,081 corpus weight
What this shows „brauchbar“ 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 | brauchbar |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈbʁaʊ̯xbaːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #21,917 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „brauchbar“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around brauchbar (IPA [ˈbʁaʊ̯xbaːɐ̯]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #21,917 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "für etwas geeignet".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for brauchbar, with forms such as "baruchbar", "bbrauchbar", and "bracuhbar". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "brauchbare", "brauchbares", "brauchbaren", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is brauchbar, spelled B-R-A-U-C-H-B-A-R.
Definition
- 1für etwas geeignet
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how brauchbar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"Dein Vorschlag ist leider nicht brauchbar. Wir müssen uns etwas anderes überlegen."
Geophysiker Birger-Gottfried Lühr: "Noch einmal: bislang sind wir noch nicht soweit, dass man diese Parameter [Grundwasserabsenkung] brauchbar für eine konkrete [Erdbeben-]Vorhersage einsetzen kann, um beispielsweise eine Evakuierung durchzuführen.
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- baruchbar
- bbrauchbar
- bracuhbar
- braucbhar
- braucchbar
- brauchabr
- brauchbarr
- brauchbbar
- brauchbra
- brauchhbar
- brauhcbar
- brrauchbar
- bruachbar
- rbauchbar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of brauchbar - 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 "brauchbar", 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).