Ibn
[ɪbn̩]
The verdict
“Ibn” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #20,958) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #20,958
- frequency rank, German
- 1,488
- “I” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Teil arabischer Personennamen mit der Bedeutung „Sohn“
Corpus desk
Index DE-ibn · Ibn · German
Ibn · rank #20,958 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,958
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,488
- PHOTO-FINISH imstande
Nearest frequency peer: imstande (+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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „Ibn“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Hiphop
Hiphop
79,046 corpus weight
- Hulk
Hulk
79,045 corpus weight
- Ibn
Ibn
79,043 corpus weight
- imstande
imstande
79,042 corpus weight
- Ingeborg
Ingeborg
79,041 corpus weight
- intuitiv
intuitiv
79,040 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „Ibn“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
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 | Ibn |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɪbn̩] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #20,958 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „Ibn“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Ibn is neighbouring look-alikes ("im", "is", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ɪbn̩]. Frequency #20,958 among 1,488 “I” headwords. Gloss: "Teil arabischer Personennamen mit der Bedeutung „Sohn“".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Ibn, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "im", "is", "ii", and more, 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 pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is Ibn, spelled I-B-N.
Definition
- 1Teil arabischer Personennamen mit der Bedeutung „Sohn“
Synonyms
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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