Bronx
[bʁɔŋks]
The verdict
“Bronx” has 8 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #36,235. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,235
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Stadtbezirk der US-amerikanischen Stadt New York
Corpus desk
Index DE-bronx · Bronx · German
Bronx · rank #36,235 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,235
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Britannien
Nearest frequency peer: Britannien (-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 „Bronx“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- boo
boo
63,769 corpus weight
- Britannien
Britannien
63,767 corpus weight
- Bronx
Bronx
63,766 corpus weight
- Buchhandels
Buchhandels
63,765 corpus weight
- Butt
Butt
63,764 corpus weight
- Byte
Byte
63,763 corpus weight
What this shows „Bronx“ 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 | Bronx |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [bʁɔŋks] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #36,235 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Bronx“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Bronx (IPA [bʁɔŋks]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #36,235 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Stadtbezirk der US-amerikanischen Stadt New York".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Bronx, with forms such as "bbronx", "bornx", and "brnox". 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, "Brot", "bros", "brun", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Bronx, spelled B-R-O-N-X.
Definition
- 1Stadtbezirk der US-amerikanischen Stadt New York
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Bronx appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Ein Beispiel war der brutale und erschreckend sinnlose Mord an Francine Elveson im Oktober 1979 in der Bronx, in der Nähe einiger der Lieblingsorte von David Berkowitz.“
„Tatsächlich war er aber ein Kind der Bronx: Sein Vater hatte als Portier in einem Wohnhaus an der Fifth Avenue gearbeitet und war einer der ersten Schwarzen gewesen, denen es gelungen war, der Iren-Mafia einen dieser begehrten Posten abzujagen.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbronx
- bornx
- brnox
- bronnx
- bronxx
- broxn
- brronx
- rbonx
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Bronx - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "Bronx", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).