Buddha
[ˈbʊda]
The verdict
“Buddha” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #14,532. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,532
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Begründer des Buddhismus
Corpus desk
Index DE-buddha · Buddha · German
Buddha · rank #14,532 · 7 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,532
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Buben
Nearest frequency peer: Buben (-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 „Buddha“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- brasilianis…
brasilianische
85,472 corpus weight
- Buben
Buben
85,470 corpus weight
- Buddha
Buddha
85,469 corpus weight
- Bushalteste…
Bushaltestelle
85,468 corpus weight
- chronisch
chronisch
85,467 corpus weight
- CNN
CNN
85,466 corpus weight
What this shows „Buddha“ 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 | Buddha |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbʊda] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #14,532 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Buddha“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Buddha (IPA [ˈbʊda]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,532 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Buddha, with forms such as "bbuddha", "bdudha", and "buddah". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "buddy", "Buddhas", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 Buddha, spelled B-U-D-D-H-A.
Definition
- 1Begründer des Buddhismus
- 2Erwachter, Erleuchteter
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Buddha appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Buddha hat eine Weltreligion gestiftet.
Er umgibt sich mit der Aura eines Buddha.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbuddha
- bdudha
- buddah
- buddhha
- budha
- budhda
- ubddha
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Buddha - 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 "Buddha", 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 (7 here; floor ≥5).