bums
[bʊms]
The verdict
“bums” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #37,424. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,424
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs bumsen
Corpus desk
Index DE-bums · bums · German
bums · rank #37,424 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,424
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Bundespost
Nearest frequency peer: Bundespost (+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 „bums“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Brennweite
Brennweite
62,581 corpus weight
- brink
brink
62,580 corpus weight
- bräunlich
bräunlich
62,579 corpus weight
- bums
bums
62,577 corpus weight
- Bundespost
Bundespost
62,576 corpus weight
- bürokratisc…
bürokratische
62,574 corpus weight
What this shows „bums“ 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 | bums |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [bʊms] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #37,424 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „bums“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around bums (IPA [bʊms]), averb. Corpus frequency is #37,424 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs bumsen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for bums, with forms such as "bbums", "bmus", and "bumms". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Bus", "but", "buy", 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is bums, spelled B-U-M-S.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs bumsen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbums
- bmus
- bumms
- bumss
- busm
- ubms
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bums - 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 "bums", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).