beaufsichtigen
[bəˈʔaʊ̯fˌzɪçtɪɡn̩]
The verdict
“beaufsichtigen” is uncommon German (frequency #51,960 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,960
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ein Auge auf etwas haben; kontrollierend überwachen
Corpus desk
Index DE-beaufsichtigen · beaufsichtigen · German
beaufsichtigen · rank #51,960 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,960
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Baumbestand
Nearest frequency peer: Baumbestand (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „beaufsichtigen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Bauhof
Bauhof
48,043 corpus weight
- Baumbestand
Baumbestand
48,042 corpus weight
- beaufsichti…
beaufsichtigen
48,041 corpus weight
- bedürftig
bedürftig
48,040 corpus weight
- Begrenzungen
Begrenzungen
48,039 corpus weight
- Begrifflich…
Begrifflichkeit
48,038 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „beaufsichtigen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | beaufsichtigen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [bəˈʔaʊ̯fˌzɪçtɪɡn̩] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #51,960 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „beaufsichtigen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
beaufsichtigen is uncommon German at frequency #51,960 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [bəˈʔaʊ̯fˌzɪçtɪɡn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "ein Auge auf etwas haben; kontrollierend überwachen".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for beaufsichtigen, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 beaufsichtigen, spelled B-E-A-U-F-S-I-C-H-T-I-G-E-N.
Definition
- 1ein Auge auf etwas haben; kontrollierend überwachen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how beaufsichtigen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ein oder zwei Erzieher beaufsichtigen die Kinder in der Sandkiste.
„Das Haspelamt, dem der Haspelmeister (Haspelmeistergasse) vorstand, war dazu bestimmt, die kaiserlichen Jagdreviere (insbesondere Hasengehege) zu beaufsichtigen.“
This word in other languages
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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