Bürokratie
[byʁokʁaˈtiː]
The verdict
“Bürokratie” has 14 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #12,473. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,473
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - bürokratisches (sich sehr streng an die [amtlichen] Vorschriften haltendes) Handeln
Corpus desk
Index DE-burokratie · Bürokratie · German
Bürokratie · rank #12,473 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #12,473
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Bürgerschaft
Nearest frequency peer: Bürgerschaft (-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 „Bürokratie“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Bremse
Bremse
87,531 corpus weight
- Butler
Butler
87,530 corpus weight
- Bürgerschaft
Bürgerschaft
87,529 corpus weight
- Bürokratie
Bürokratie
87,528 corpus weight
- Ce
Ce
87,526 corpus weight
- christlicher
christlicher
87,525 corpus weight
What this shows „Bürokratie“ 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 | Bürokratie |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [byʁokʁaˈtiː] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #12,473 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Bürokratie“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around Bürokratie (IPA [byʁokʁaˈtiː]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,473 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for Bürokratie, with forms such as "bbürokratie", "brüokratie", and "büorkratie". 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, "Bürokraten", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Bürokratie, spelled B-Ü-R-O-K-R-A-T-I-E.
Definition
- 1bürokratisches (sich sehr streng an die [amtlichen] Vorschriften haltendes) Handeln
- 2Verwaltungsapparat, Gesamtheit der Beamten
- 3eine Herrschaftsform, in der Beamten die Herrschaft ausüben
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Bürokratie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel hat die Eröffnungsrede beim Weltwirtschaftsforum in Davos für ein Plädoyer gegen Bürokratie und für mehr Freiheit genutzt.“ (www.spiegel.de)
„Die Freiheitsliebe beschränkt sich in Deutschland häufig auf die Klage über zu viel Bürokratie, doch sobald etwas im Fleisch oder Frühstücksei auftaucht, was dort nicht hingehört, ergeht der Ruf nach strikteren Kontrollen und Vorschriften.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbürokratie
- brüokratie
- büorkratie
- bürkoratie
- bürokartie
- bürokkratie
- bürokraite
- bürokratei
- bürokrattie
- bürokrratie
- bürokrtaie
- bürorkatie
- bürrokratie
- übrokratie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Bürokratie - 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 "Bürokratie", 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 (14 here; floor ≥5).