tube
[tjuːb]
The verdict
“tube” has 5 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #15,766. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,766
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ein Rohr
Corpus desk
Index DE-tube · tube · German
tube · rank #15,766 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,766
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH Trommeln
Nearest frequency peer: Trommeln (-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 „tube“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Traktor
Traktor
84,238 corpus weight
- Trasse
Trasse
84,237 corpus weight
- Trommeln
Trommeln
84,236 corpus weight
- tube
tube
84,235 corpus weight
- Tugend
Tugend
84,234 corpus weight
- Tz
Tz
84,233 corpus weight
What this shows „tube“ 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 | tube |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [tjuːb] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #15,766 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „tube“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around tube (IPA [tjuːb]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,766 among 2,684 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for tube, with forms such as "tbue", "ttube", and "tubbe". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tun", "tut", "Tür", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is tube, spelled T-U-B-E.
Definition
- 1ein Rohr
- 2eine Röhre
- 3eine Tube
- 4ein Schlauch für einen Reifen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- tbue
- ttube
- tubbe
- tueb
- utbe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tube - 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 "tube", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).