befähigte
[bəˈfɛːɪçtə]
The verdict
“befähigte” is uncommon German (frequency #80,130 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,130
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nominativ Singular Femininum der starken Flexion des Positivs des Adjektivs befähigt
Corpus desk
Index DE-befahigte · befähigte · German
befähigte · rank #80,130 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,130
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH befriedigenden
Nearest frequency peer: befriedigenden (-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 „befähigte“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- bedankten
bedankten
19,874 corpus weight
- bedauerlich…
bedauerlichen
19,873 corpus weight
- befriedigen…
befriedigenden
19,872 corpus weight
- befähigte
befähigte
19,871 corpus weight
- behaviour
behaviour
19,869 corpus weight
- behutsame
behutsame
19,868 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „befähigte“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | befähigte |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [bəˈfɛːɪçtə] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #80,130 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „befähigte“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
befähigte is uncommon German at frequency #80,130 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [bəˈfɛːɪçtə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 9 senses are on record.
befähigte doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is befähigte, spelled B-E-F-Ä-H-I-G-T-E.
Definition
- 1Nominativ Singular Femininum der starken Flexion des Positivs des Adjektivs befähigt
- 2Akkusativ Singular Femininum der starken Flexion des Positivs des Adjektivs befähigt
- 3Nominativ Plural alle Genera der starken Flexion des Positivs des Adjektivs befähigt
- 4Akkusativ Plural alle Genera der starken Flexion des Positivs des Adjektivs befähigt
- 5Nominativ Singular alle Genera der schwachen Flexion des Positivs des Adjektivs befähigt
- 6Akkusativ Singular Femininum der schwachen Flexion des Positivs des Adjektivs befähigt
- 7Akkusativ Singular Neutrum der schwachen Flexion des Positivs des Adjektivs befähigt
- 8Nominativ Singular Femininum der gemischten Flexion des Positivs des Adjektivs befähigt
- 9Akkusativ Singular Femininum der gemischten Flexion des Positivs des Adjektivs befähigt
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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