beat
[biːt]
The verdict
“beat” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #9,153) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #9,153
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs beaten
Corpus desk
Index DE-beat · beat · German
beat · rank #9,153 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,153
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Bann
Nearest frequency peer: Bann (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „beat“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- AZ
AZ
90,851 corpus weight
- balance
balance
90,850 corpus weight
- Bann
Bann
90,849 corpus weight
- beat
beat
90,848 corpus weight
- Beförderung
Beförderung
90,847 corpus weight
- belasten
belasten
90,846 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „beat“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
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 | beat |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [biːt] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #9,153 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „beat“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for beat is neighbouring look-alikes ("bei", "Bot", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [biːt]. Frequency #9,153 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs beaten".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for beat, with forms such as "baet", "bbeat", and "beatt". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bei", "Bot", "ber", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is beat, spelled B-E-A-T.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs beaten
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- baet
- bbeat
- beatt
- ebat
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of beat - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).