bürgerlich
[ˈbʏʁɡɐlɪç]
The verdict
“bürgerlich” has 16 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #17,245. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,245
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - auf die Staatsbürger oder die Bürger eines Gemeinwesens bezogen
Corpus desk
Index DE-burgerlich · bürgerlich · German
bürgerlich · rank #17,245 · 16 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,245
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Canyon
Nearest frequency peer: Canyon (+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 „bürgerlich“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- breaking
breaking
82,759 corpus weight
- breitet
breitet
82,758 corpus weight
- bürgerlich
bürgerlich
82,756 corpus weight
- Canyon
Canyon
82,755 corpus weight
- chemisch
chemisch
82,754 corpus weight
- codex
codex
82,753 corpus weight
What this shows „bürgerlich“ 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 | bürgerlich |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈbʏʁɡɐlɪç] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #17,245 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „bürgerlich“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around bürgerlich (IPA [ˈbʏʁɡɐlɪç]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #17,245 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for bürgerlich, with forms such as "bbürgerlich", "brügerlich", and "bügrerlich". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "bürgerliche", "bürgerlichen", "bürgerlicher", and more, 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is bürgerlich, spelled B-Ü-R-G-E-R-L-I-C-H.
Definition
- 1auf die Staatsbürger oder die Bürger eines Gemeinwesens bezogen
- 2auf die Menschen bezogen, die dem Bürgertum angehören
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bürgerlich appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Man muss an den bürgerlichen Rechten mit aller Kraft festhalten.
Mit bürgerlichem Namen heißt sie wenig medientauglich Elisbeth Krummnagel.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbürgerlich
- brügerlich
- bügrerlich
- büregrlich
- bürgelrich
- bürgerilch
- bürgerlcih
- bürgerlicch
- bürgerlichh
- bürgerlihc
- bürgerllich
- bürgerrlich
- bürggerlich
- bürgrelich
- bürrgerlich
- übrgerlich
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bürgerlich - 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 "bürgerlich", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).