Kontrabass
[ˈkɔntʁaˌbas]
The verdict
“Kontrabass” has 15 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #29,198. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,198
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - größtes und tiefstes der heute im Orchester verwendeten Streichinstrumente
Corpus desk
Index DE-kontrabass · Kontrabass · German
Kontrabass · rank #29,198 · 15 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,198
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH kontern
Nearest frequency peer: kontern (-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 „Kontrabass“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Kontaktaufn…
Kontaktaufnahme
70,805 corpus weight
- kontern
kontern
70,804 corpus weight
- Kontrabass
Kontrabass
70,803 corpus weight
- Korpus
Korpus
70,802 corpus weight
- kreuzt
kreuzt
70,801 corpus weight
- kribbeln
kribbeln
70,800 corpus weight
What this shows „Kontrabass“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kontrabass |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkɔntʁaˌbas] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #29,198 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Kontrabass“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around Kontrabass (IPA [ˈkɔntʁaˌbas]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,198 among 4,158 “K” headwords. Dominant gloss: "größtes und tiefstes der heute im Orchester verwendeten Streichinstrumente".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for Kontrabass, with forms such as "kkontrabass", "knotrabass", and "konntrabass". 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. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Kontrabass, spelled K-O-N-T-R-A-B-A-S-S.
Definition
- 1größtes und tiefstes der heute im Orchester verwendeten Streichinstrumente
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Kontrabass appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Zwar ist der Kontrabass ein Orchester-Instrument und dient dort den Streichern als Fundament. Dennoch ist auf ihm Virtuosität entwickelt worden. Sogar Doppelgriffe und Flageolett sind möglich.“
Mit Kontrabass und Gitarre tourt er [Reinhard Röhrs] durch Deutschland und rezitiert Texte von Christian Morgenstern.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- kkontrabass
- knotrabass
- konntrabass
- konrtabass
- kontarbass
- kontraabss
- kontrabas
- kontrabaß
- kontrabbass
- kontrabsas
- kontrbaass
- kontrrabass
- konttrabass
- kotnrabass
- okntrabass
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Kontrabass - 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
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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