Byte
[baɪ̯t]
The verdict
“Byte” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #36,238. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,238
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Maßeinheit der Datenmenge, wobei ein Byte genau acht Bit entspricht
Corpus desk
Index DE-byte · Byte · German
Byte · rank #36,238 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,238
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Butt
Nearest frequency peer: Butt (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Byte”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Bronx
Bronx
63,766 corpus weight
- Buchhandels
Buchhandels
63,765 corpus weight
- Butt
Butt
63,764 corpus weight
- Byte
Byte
63,763 corpus weight
- Callcenter
Callcenter
63,762 corpus weight
- carpenter
carpenter
63,761 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Byte” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | Byte |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [baɪ̯t] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #36,238 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “Byte” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Byte (IPA [baɪ̯t]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,238 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Byte, with forms such as "bbyte", "btye", and "byet". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Bytes", "be", "by", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Byte, spelled B-Y-T-E.
Definition
- 1Maßeinheit der Datenmenge, wobei ein Byte genau acht Bit entspricht
- 2Kleinste adressierbare Datenmenge eines bestimmten technischen Systems, bei heutigen Computern meist 8 Bit
- 3geordnete Zusammenstellung von 8 Bit
- 4Datentyp einiger Programmiersprachen, meistens der Länge 8 Bit
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Byte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Heutige Festplatten können eine Datenmenge in einer Größenordnung von einer Billion Byte speichern.
Die ersten Disketten hatten eine Kapazität von 184 320 Byte.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbyte
- btye
- byet
- bytte
- byyte
- ybte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Byte - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "Byte", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
You've looked up "Byte". Here's where to go from here.
- "Byte" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "Bytes". View pair
- 6 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #36,238 among German headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more German words in the "B" letter cohort. B–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.