Bulletin
[bʏlˈtɛ̃ː]
The verdict
“Bulletin” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #21,201. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,201
- frequency rank, German
- 72,680
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - offizielle, veröffentlichte Verlautbarung
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 | Bulletin |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [bʏlˈtɛ̃ː] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #21,201 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Bulletin” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Bulletin (IPA [bʏlˈtɛ̃ː]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,201 among 72,680 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "offizielle, veröffentlichte Verlautbarung".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Bulletin, with forms such as "bbulletin", "bluletin", and "buleltin". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Bullen", "bullet", 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Bulletin, spelled B-U-L-L-E-T-I-N.
Definition
- 1offizielle, veröffentlichte Verlautbarung
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbulletin
- bluletin
- buleltin
- buletin
- bulleitn
- bulletinn
- bulletni
- bullettin
- bulltein
- ublletin
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Bulletin - 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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Using “Bulletin”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is B-U-L-L-E-T-I-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [bʏlˈtɛ̃ː] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Bullen” - see the side-by-side comparison. Bulletin vs Bullen
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Same frequency band
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.