Burka
[ˈbʊʁka]
The verdict
“Burka” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #20,202. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,202
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - traditionell blaues Kleidungsstück, das als Ganzkörperschleier getragen wird und auch die Augen (mit einem Vorhang aus Rosshaar) bedeckt
Corpus desk
Index DE-burka · Burka · German
Burka · rank #20,202 · 7 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,202
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH C1
Nearest frequency peer: C1 (+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 „Burka“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- brandenburg…
brandenburgischen
79,803 corpus weight
- Bretter
Bretter
79,802 corpus weight
- brüllt
brüllt
79,801 corpus weight
- Burka
Burka
79,799 corpus weight
- C1
C1
79,798 corpus weight
- camps
camps
79,797 corpus weight
What this shows „Burka“ 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 | Burka |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbʊʁka] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #20,202 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Burka“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Burka (IPA [ˈbʊʁka]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,202 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "traditionell blaues Kleidungsstück, das als Ganzkörperschleier getragen wird und auch die Augen (mit einem Vorhang aus Rosshaar) bedeckt".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Burka, with forms such as "bburka", "bruka", and "bukra". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "Büro", "burn", "burt", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Burka, spelled B-U-R-K-A.
Definition
- 1traditionell blaues Kleidungsstück, das als Ganzkörperschleier getragen wird und auch die Augen (mit einem Vorhang aus Rosshaar) bedeckt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Burka appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In einigen europäischen Ländern ist das Tragen der Burka in der Öffentlichkeit verboten.
Die afghanische Burka wurde ursprünglich nur in den Städten getragen.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bburka
- bruka
- bukra
- burak
- burkka
- burrka
- ubrka
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Burka - 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 "Burka", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).