Rabbi
[ˈʁabi]
The verdict
“Rabbi” has 5 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #23,672. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,672
- frequency rank, German
- 2,984
- “R” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ehrentitel oder ehrenvolle Anredeform eines jüdischen Gelehrten und Lehrers
Corpus desk
Index DE-rabbi · Rabbi · German
Rabbi · rank #23,672 · 5 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,672
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,984
- PHOTO-FINISH rausgeschmiss…
Nearest frequency peer: rausgeschmissen (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Rabbi”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Provence
Provence
76,333 corpus weight
- prächtige
prächtige
76,332 corpus weight
- prüfe
prüfe
76,331 corpus weight
- Rabbi
Rabbi
76,329 corpus weight
- rausgeschmi…
rausgeschmissen
76,328 corpus weight
- raven
raven
76,327 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Rabbi” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | Rabbi |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʁabi] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #23,672 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “Rabbi” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around Rabbi (IPA [ˈʁabi]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #23,672 among 2,984 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for Rabbi, with forms such as "arbbi", "rabi", and "rabib". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "rbb", "Raub", "Rabe", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Rabbi, spelled R-A-B-B-I.
Definition
- 1Ehrentitel oder ehrenvolle Anredeform eines jüdischen Gelehrten und Lehrers
- 2Träger des unter [1a] beschriebenen Ehrentitels
- 3Titel der Gelehrten, die in talmudischer Zeit die biblischen Gesetze auslegten
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Rabbi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Ein Muster gottgefälligen Wandels war der dortige Rabbiner, genannt Rabbi Abraham, ein noch jugendlicher Mann, der aber weit und breit wegen seiner Gelahrtheit berühmt war.“
„Der einzige Rabbi, den ich kannte, war der Rabbi der einzigen Überlebenden unserer polnischen Sippe.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- arbbi
- rabi
- rabib
- rbabi
- rrabbi
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Rabbi - 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 "Rabbi", 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 (5 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "Rabbi" maps to 10 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "rbb". View pair
- 5 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #23,672 among German headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more German words in the "R" letter cohort. R–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.