Istanbul
[ˈɪstanbuːl]
The verdict
“Istanbul” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #5,969. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,969
- frequency rank, German
- 1,488
- “I” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - größte Stadt der Türkei
Corpus desk
Index DE-istanbul · Istanbul · German
Istanbul · rank #5,969 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #5,969
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,488
- PHOTO-FINISH irgendjemand
Nearest frequency peer: irgendjemand (-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 „Istanbul“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- ideale
ideale
94,035 corpus weight
- Informatik
Informatik
94,034 corpus weight
- irgendjemand
irgendjemand
94,033 corpus weight
- Istanbul
Istanbul
94,032 corpus weight
- Kleider
Kleider
94,031 corpus weight
- Knast
Knast
94,030 corpus weight
What this shows „Istanbul“ 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 | Istanbul |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈɪstanbuːl] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #5,969 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Istanbul“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Istanbul (IPA [ˈɪstanbuːl]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #5,969 among 1,488 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "größte Stadt der Türkei".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Istanbul, with forms such as "isatnbul", "isstanbul", and "istabnul". 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, "Istanbuler", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Istanbul, spelled I-S-T-A-N-B-U-L.
Definition
- 1größte Stadt der Türkei
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Istanbul appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Nach einer Berg- und Talfahrt ist Fed-Cup-Spielerin Andrea Petkovic (Darmstadt) beim WTA-Turnier in Istanbul im Halbfinale gescheitert.“
„Sein Plan war, zunächst von Bulgarien und dem griechischen Thrakien aus den europäischen Teil der Türkei zu erobern, Istanbul zu nehmen und den Bosporus zu überqueren, um weiter nach Anatolien vorzustoßen.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- isatnbul
- isstanbul
- istabnul
- istanbbul
- istanblu
- istanbull
- istannbul
- istanubl
- istnabul
- isttanbul
- itsanbul
- sitanbul
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Istanbul - 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 "Istanbul", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).