Büro
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,588
in German word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Büro is aGermannoun. It means: Dienststelle oder Geschäftsräume, wo schriftliche oder verwaltende Arbeiten erledigt werden Pronounced [byˈʁoː]. It ranks #1,588 in German word frequency. Often confused with Bus and but.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Büro |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [byˈʁoː] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,588 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Büro is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [byˈʁoː]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,588 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for Büro, with forms such as "bbüro", "brüo", and "büor". 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, 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Büro, spelled B-Ü-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dienststelle oder Geschäftsräume, wo schriftliche oder verwaltende Arbeiten erledigt werden
- 2Gesamtheit der Angestellten eines Büros ^([1])
- 3Arbeitszimmer in einer Wohnung
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbüro,brüo,büor,bürro,übro
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Büro
Misspelling Variants of "Büro"
Frequency rank: #1,588 in German
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Nearby German words
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