Wasserbad
[ˈvasɐˌbaːt]
The verdict
“Wasserbad” has 13 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #48,620. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,620
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ein mit Wasser gefüllter Behälter zur Zubereitung oder Aufbewahrung und zum Erwärmen von Speisen (in ähnlicher Weise auch im Labor zur schonenden Erwärmung von Flüssigkeiten angewandt)
Corpus desk
Index DE-wasserbad · Wasserbad · German
Wasserbad · rank #48,620 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #48,620
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH Wasserflasche
Nearest frequency peer: Wasserflasche (+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 „Wasserbad“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Waldheim
Waldheim
51,384 corpus weight
- Walnuss
Walnuss
51,383 corpus weight
- Wasserbad
Wasserbad
51,381 corpus weight
- Wasserflasc…
Wasserflasche
51,380 corpus weight
- Wassersport
Wassersport
51,379 corpus weight
- Watergate
Watergate
51,378 corpus weight
What this shows „Wasserbad“ 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 | Wasserbad |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈvasɐˌbaːt] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #48,620 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Wasserbad“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Wasserbad (IPA [ˈvasɐˌbaːt]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #48,620 among 2,930 “W” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Wasserbad, with forms such as "awsserbad", "waserbad", and "wasesrbad". 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, "Wasserball", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Wasserbad, spelled W-A-S-S-E-R-B-A-D.
Definition
- 1ein mit Wasser gefüllter Behälter zur Zubereitung oder Aufbewahrung und zum Erwärmen von Speisen (in ähnlicher Weise auch im Labor zur schonenden Erwärmung von Flüssigkeiten angewandt)
- 2Wasserbehälter, meist mit Fließwasser, zum Auswaschen von Fotopapier
- 3Bad im Wasser
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Wasserbad appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Für ein Wasserbad benötigt man zwei ineinander passende Gefäße, wobei der größere mit heißem Wasser gefüllt wird.
„Dann verschafften sie sich alte Sardinenbüchsen, taten Kalbskoteletts hinein und legten sie in ein Wasserbad.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- awsserbad
- waserbad
- wasesrbad
- wassebrad
- wasserabd
- wasserbadd
- wasserbbad
- wasserbda
- wasserrbad
- wassrebad
- waßerbad
- wsaserbad
- wwasserbad
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Wasserbad - 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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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).