Bucht
[bʊxt]
The verdict
“Bucht” has 8 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #7,735. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,735
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine Gewässerfläche innerhalb einer Einbiegung, Einwärtsbiegung von Küsten- und Uferlinien, innerhalb einer dreiseitigen Begrenzung durch Land
Corpus desk
Index DE-bucht · Bucht · German
Bucht · rank #7,735 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,735
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Buche
Nearest frequency peer: Buche (-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 “Bucht”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- bravo
bravo
92,269 corpus weight
- Brett
Brett
92,268 corpus weight
- Buche
Buche
92,267 corpus weight
- Bucht
Bucht
92,266 corpus weight
- Bulgarien
Bulgarien
92,265 corpus weight
- Cannabis
Cannabis
92,264 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Bucht” 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 | Bucht |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [bʊxt] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #7,735 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “Bucht” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Bucht (IPA [bʊxt]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,735 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Bucht, with forms such as "bbucht", "bcuht", and "buccht". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "but", "buh", "bunt", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 Bucht, spelled B-U-C-H-T.
Definition
- 1eine Gewässerfläche innerhalb einer Einbiegung, Einwärtsbiegung von Küsten- und Uferlinien, innerhalb einer dreiseitigen Begrenzung durch Land
- 2eine von drei Seiten durch Bergzüge eingerahmte, ebene Landschaft
- 3ein kleiner Stall, Verschlag für Haustiere
- 4eine Wende in einem Seilverlauf, eine Schleife im Tau
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Bucht appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der Jadebusen ist eine Bucht an der Nordseeküste.
„Wir hielten Kurs auf eine Landzunge im äußersten Osten der Insel, wo wir eine Stunde später in einer geschützten Bucht ankerten.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbucht
- bcuht
- buccht
- buchht
- buchtt
- bucth
- buhct
- ubcht
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Bucht - 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 "Bucht", 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).
What to do next
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- "Bucht" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "but". View pair
- 8 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #7,735 among German headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more German words in the "B" letter cohort. B–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
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.