Gebäck
[ɡəˈbɛk]
The verdict
“Gebäck” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #20,586. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,586
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Speise auf Mehlbasis, welche auf einem Backblech oder in einer Form in einem Ofen oder in Fett in einer Pfanne eine ausreichend lange Zeit ausgebacken wurde
Corpus desk
Index DE-geback · Gebäck · German
Gebäck · rank #20,586 · 9 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,586
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH Gebrüder
Nearest frequency peer: Gebrüder (-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 „Gebäck“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- found
found
79,418 corpus weight
- friend
friend
79,417 corpus weight
- Gebrüder
Gebrüder
79,416 corpus weight
- Gebäck
Gebäck
79,415 corpus weight
- gebürtige
gebürtige
79,414 corpus weight
- gedanklich
gedanklich
79,413 corpus weight
What this shows „Gebäck“ 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 | Gebäck |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡəˈbɛk] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #20,586 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Gebäck“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Gebäck (IPA [ɡəˈbɛk]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,586 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Speise auf Mehlbasis, welche auf einem Backblech oder in einer Form in einem Ofen oder in Fett in einer Pfanne eine ausreichend lange Zeit ausgebacken wurde".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Gebäck, with forms such as "egbäck", "gbeäck", and "gebbäck". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "gebar", "gebaut", "Gepäck", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 Gebäck, spelled G-E-B-Ä-C-K.
Definition
- 1Speise auf Mehlbasis, welche auf einem Backblech oder in einer Form in einem Ofen oder in Fett in einer Pfanne eine ausreichend lange Zeit ausgebacken wurde
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Gebäck appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Ach, wenn meine Gattin aufwacht, nimmt sie gern eine Tasse Tee mit etwas Gebäck.“ (Loriot)
„Der Verein für Konsumenteninformation hat rechtzeitig zur Krapfen-Hochsaison das beliebte Gebäck unter die Lupe genommen. 13 Faschingskrapfen in der gängigsten Variante, also mit Füllung aus Marillenmarmelade, wurden untersucht.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egbäck
- gbeäck
- gebbäck
- gebcäk
- gebäcck
- gebäckk
- gebäkc
- geäbck
- ggebäck
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Gebäck - 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 "Gebäck", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).