Bub
[buːp]
The verdict
“Bub” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #14,259) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,259
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - männliches Kind
Corpus desk
Index DE-bub · Bub · German
Bub · rank #14,259 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,259
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Bulle
Nearest frequency peer: Bulle (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Bub”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- beschriebene
beschriebene
85,745 corpus weight
- Blech
Blech
85,744 corpus weight
- Bub
Bub
85,742 corpus weight
- Bulle
Bulle
85,741 corpus weight
- Busen
Busen
85,740 corpus weight
- Bussen
Bussen
85,739 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Bub” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | Bub |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [buːp] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #14,259 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “Bub” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Bub is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "Bus", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [buːp]. Frequency #14,259 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Gloss: "männliches Kind".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Bub, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "Bus", "BVB", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Bub, spelled B-U-B.
Definition
- 1männliches Kind
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Bub appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ich bin ein hübscher Bub.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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- "Bub" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "by". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #14,259 among German headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.