Salbe
[ˈzalbə]
The verdict
“Salbe” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #22,488. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,488
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine halbfeste und homogen aussehende Arzneizubereitung, die zur Anwendung auf der Haut oder auf den Schleimhäuten bestimmt ist
Corpus desk
Index DE-salbe · Salbe · German
Salbe · rank #22,488 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,488
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Römern
Nearest frequency peer: Römern (-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 „Salbe“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- root
root
77,516 corpus weight
- rumänische
rumänische
77,515 corpus weight
- Römern
Römern
77,514 corpus weight
- Salbe
Salbe
77,513 corpus weight
- Sauberkeit
Sauberkeit
77,512 corpus weight
- Schrein
Schrein
77,511 corpus weight
What this shows „Salbe“ 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 | Salbe |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈzalbə] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #22,488 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Salbe“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Salbe (IPA [ˈzalbə]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,488 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "eine halbfeste und homogen aussehende Arzneizubereitung, die zur Anwendung auf der Haut oder auf den Schleimhäuten bestimmt ist".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Salbe, with forms such as "aslbe", "sable", and "salbbe". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Salz", "Same", "sale", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 Salbe, spelled S-A-L-B-E.
Definition
- 1eine halbfeste und homogen aussehende Arzneizubereitung, die zur Anwendung auf der Haut oder auf den Schleimhäuten bestimmt ist
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Salbe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der Arzt hat mir für meinen Hautausschlag eine Salbe verschrieben.
„Nachdem er sich balbiert und die Perücke gekämmt, sich mit Salben und wohlduftenden Essenzen behandelt, wie es sich für einen vornehmen Mann geziemt, begann er, nach isländischem Brauch, aus einer großen Pfeife rauchend, auf und ab zu gehen.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aslbe
- sable
- salbbe
- saleb
- sallbe
- slabe
- ssalbe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Salbe - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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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).