mobben
[ˈmɔbn̩]
The verdict
“mobben” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #46,152. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,152
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine Person in der Öffentlichkeit schikanieren, intrigieren oder terrorisieren
Corpus desk
Index DE-mobben · mobben · German
mobben · rank #46,152 · 7 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,152
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH mitgerissen
Nearest frequency peer: mitgerissen (-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 „mobben“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- misslingt
misslingt
53,853 corpus weight
- Misstrauens…
Misstrauensvotum
53,852 corpus weight
- mitgerissen
mitgerissen
53,850 corpus weight
- mobben
mobben
53,849 corpus weight
- modulare
modulare
53,847 corpus weight
- month
month
53,846 corpus weight
What this shows „mobben“ 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 | mobben |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈmɔbn̩] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #46,152 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „mobben“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around mobben (IPA [ˈmɔbn̩]), averb. Corpus frequency is #46,152 among 3,571 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "eine Person in der Öffentlichkeit schikanieren, intrigieren oder terrorisieren".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for mobben, with forms such as "mboben", "mmobben", and "mobbenn". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "mögen", "Möbel", "Möwen", and more, 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is mobben, spelled M-O-B-B-E-N.
Definition
- 1eine Person in der Öffentlichkeit schikanieren, intrigieren oder terrorisieren
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mobben appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Wenn mich meine Mitschüler weiterhin derart mobben, beschwere ich mich beim Klassenvorstand.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mboben
- mmobben
- mobbenn
- mobbne
- mobebn
- moben
- ombben
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mobben - 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 "mobben", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).