bull
[bʊl]
The verdict
“bull” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #6,521) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #6,521
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bulle
Corpus desk
Index DE-bull · bull · German
bull · rank #6,521 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,521
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH bremsen
Nearest frequency peer: bremsen (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „bull“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- blicke
blicke
93,483 corpus weight
- breiter
breiter
93,482 corpus weight
- bremsen
bremsen
93,481 corpus weight
- bull
bull
93,480 corpus weight
- Couch
Couch
93,479 corpus weight
- Dankeschön
Dankeschön
93,478 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „bull“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
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 | bull |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [bʊl] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #6,521 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „bull“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bull is neighbouring look-alikes ("Bus", "but", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [bʊl]. Frequency #6,521 among 5,818 “B” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for bull, with forms such as "bbull", "blul", and "bul". 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, "Bus", "but", "buy", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 bull, spelled B-U-L-L.
Definition
- 1Bulle
- 2Stier
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbull
- blul
- bul
- ubll
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bull - 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 "bull", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).