Bürgerinitiative
[ˈbʏʁɡɐʔinit͡si̯aˌtiːvə]
The verdict
“Bürgerinitiative” has 23 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #20,542. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,542
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 23
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Zusammenschluss von Bürgern zur Vertretung ihrer Interessen
Corpus desk
Index DE-burgerinitiative · Bürgerinitiative · German
Bürgerinitiative · rank #20,542 · 23 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #20,542
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-8 8 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 23 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH bureau
Nearest frequency peer: bureau (-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 „Bürgerinitiative“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Bundesagent…
Bundesagentur
79,462 corpus weight
- Bundesligis…
Bundesligisten
79,461 corpus weight
- bureau
bureau
79,460 corpus weight
- Bürgeriniti…
Bürgerinitiative
79,459 corpus weight
- CETA
CETA
79,458 corpus weight
- Charakters
Charakters
79,457 corpus weight
What this shows „Bürgerinitiative“ 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 | Bürgerinitiative |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbʏʁɡɐʔinit͡si̯aˌtiːvə] |
| Letters | 16 |
| Frequency rank | #20,542 |
| Misspellings tracked | 23 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Bürgerinitiative“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 23 spelling variants around Bürgerinitiative (IPA [ˈbʏʁɡɐʔinit͡si̯aˌtiːvə]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,542 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Zusammenschluss von Bürgern zur Vertretung ihrer Interessen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 23 likely wrong-spelling variants for Bürgerinitiative, with forms such as "bbürgerinitiative", "brügerinitiative", and "bügrerinitiative". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Bürgerinitiativen", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is Bürgerinitiative, spelled B-Ü-R-G-E-R-I-N-I-T-I-A-T-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Zusammenschluss von Bürgern zur Vertretung ihrer Interessen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Bürgerinitiative appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Die Unterschriftenaktion gehört traditionellerweise zum Aktionsrepertoire der Neuen sozialen Bewegungen und von Bürgerinitiativen, findet jedoch auch außerhalb dieser ihre Anwendung.“
„Um das Trauerimage ihrer Stadt aufzupolieren, erinnerte eine Bürgerinitiative 2011 an einen Sohn der Stadt, der zu weltweitem Ruhm kam.“
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbürgerinitiative
- brügerinitiative
- bügrerinitiative
- büregrinitiative
- bürgeirnitiative
- bürgeriintiative
- bürgeriniitative
- bürgerinitaitive
- bürgerinitiaitve
- bürgerinitiatiev
- bürgerinitiativve
- bürgerinitiattive
- bürgerinitiatvie
- bürgerinititaive
- bürgerinittiative
- bürgerinnitiative
- bürgerintiiative
- bürgerniitiative
- bürgerrinitiative
- bürggerinitiative
- bürgreinitiative
- bürrgerinitiative
- übrgerinitiative
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Bürgerinitiative - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 16 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (23 here; floor ≥5).