Telefonbuch
[teləˈfoːnˌbuːx]
The verdict
“Telefonbuch” has 17 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #24,146. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,146
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Buch oder Verzeichnis von Telefonnummern, Telefonverzeichnis in Buchform
Corpus desk
Index DE-telefonbuch · Telefonbuch · German
Telefonbuch · rank #24,146 · 17 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #24,146
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH telefonate
Nearest frequency peer: telefonate (-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 „Telefonbuch“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Tatverdächt…
Tatverdächtige
75,858 corpus weight
- telefonate
telefonate
75,856 corpus weight
- Telefonbuch
Telefonbuch
75,855 corpus weight
- Tellerrand
Tellerrand
75,854 corpus weight
- teste
teste
75,853 corpus weight
- Thiele
Thiele
75,852 corpus weight
What this shows „Telefonbuch“ 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 | Telefonbuch |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [teləˈfoːnˌbuːx] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #24,146 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Telefonbuch“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around Telefonbuch (IPA [teləˈfoːnˌbuːx]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,146 among 2,684 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Buch oder Verzeichnis von Telefonnummern, Telefonverzeichnis in Buchform".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for Telefonbuch, with forms such as "etlefonbuch", "teelfonbuch", and "teleffonbuch". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "telefonisch", 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 Telefonbuch, spelled T-E-L-E-F-O-N-B-U-C-H.
Definition
- 1Buch oder Verzeichnis von Telefonnummern, Telefonverzeichnis in Buchform
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Telefonbuch appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Meine Nummer finden sie leicht im Telefonbuch unter Lieschen Müller.
Viele Telefonbesitzer lassen sich nicht mehr im Telefonbuch verzeichnen, da die Nummern von aufdringlichen Werbeanrufern missbraucht werden.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etlefonbuch
- teelfonbuch
- teleffonbuch
- telefnobuch
- telefobnuch
- telefonbbuch
- telefonbcuh
- telefonbucch
- telefonbuchh
- telefonbuhc
- telefonnbuch
- telefonubch
- teleofnbuch
- telfeonbuch
- tellefonbuch
- tleefonbuch
- ttelefonbuch
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Telefonbuch - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Telefonbuch", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).