gebrauchen
[ɡəˈbʁaʊ̯xn̩]
The verdict
“gebrauchen” has 15 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #4,986. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,986
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - etwas verwenden, benutzen
Corpus desk
Index DE-gebrauchen · gebrauchen · German
gebrauchen · rank #4,986 · 15 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,986
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH Fresse
Nearest frequency peer: Fresse (-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 „gebrauchen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- fehlende
fehlende
95,018 corpus weight
- Ferien
Ferien
95,017 corpus weight
- Fresse
Fresse
95,016 corpus weight
- gebrauchen
gebrauchen
95,015 corpus weight
- Gegenstand
Gegenstand
95,014 corpus weight
- Gegenstände
Gegenstände
95,013 corpus weight
What this shows „gebrauchen“ 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 | gebrauchen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ɡəˈbʁaʊ̯xn̩] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #4,986 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „gebrauchen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around gebrauchen (IPA [ɡəˈbʁaʊ̯xn̩]), averb. Corpus frequency is #4,986 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "etwas verwenden, benutzen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for gebrauchen, with forms such as "egbrauchen", "gberauchen", and "gebaruchen". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "gebraucht", "gebrochen", "Gebrauchs", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is gebrauchen, spelled G-E-B-R-A-U-C-H-E-N.
Definition
- 1etwas verwenden, benutzen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gebrauchen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
So ein Gerät habe ich ja noch nie gesehen – wie gebraucht man das?
Gebrauche deinen Verstand!
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egbrauchen
- gberauchen
- gebaruchen
- gebbrauchen
- gebracuhen
- gebraucchen
- gebraucehn
- gebrauchenn
- gebrauchhen
- gebrauchne
- gebrauhcen
- gebrrauchen
- gebruachen
- gerbauchen
- ggebrauchen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gebrauchen - 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 "gebrauchen", 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 (15 here; floor ≥5).