kebab
[keˈba(ː)p]
The verdict
“kebab” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #47,523. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,523
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - gegrilltes Fleisch
Corpus desk
Index DE-kebab · kebab · German
kebab · rank #47,523 · 7 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,523
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH Keimzelle
Nearest frequency peer: Keimzelle (+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 „kebab“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Kastell
Kastell
52,481 corpus weight
- katapultiert
katapultiert
52,480 corpus weight
- kebab
kebab
52,478 corpus weight
- Keimzelle
Keimzelle
52,477 corpus weight
- Keltische
Keltische
52,476 corpus weight
- KGaA
KGaA
52,475 corpus weight
What this shows „kebab“ 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 | kebab |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [keˈba(ː)p] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #47,523 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „kebab“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around kebab (IPA [keˈba(ː)p]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,523 among 4,158 “K” headwords. Dominant gloss: "gegrilltes Fleisch".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for kebab, with forms such as "ekbab", "kbeab", and "keabb". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Kuba", "Kubas", "kbA", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is kebab, spelled K-E-B-A-B.
Definition
- 1gegrilltes Fleisch
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ekbab
- kbeab
- keabb
- kebabb
- kebba
- kebbab
- kkebab
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of kebab - 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 "kebab", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).