befahren
[bəˈfaːʁən]
The verdict
“befahren” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #14,748. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,748
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mit Fahrzeugen benutzt
Corpus desk
Index DE-befahren · befahren · German
befahren · rank #14,748 · 12 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,748
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Beauftragten
Nearest frequency peer: Beauftragten (-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 „befahren“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- babe
babe
85,256 corpus weight
- Beantwortung
Beantwortung
85,255 corpus weight
- Beauftragten
Beauftragten
85,254 corpus weight
- befahren
befahren
85,253 corpus weight
- befolgen
befolgen
85,252 corpus weight
- Beilage
Beilage
85,251 corpus weight
What this shows „befahren“ 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 | befahren |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [bəˈfaːʁən] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #14,748 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „befahren“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around befahren (IPA [bəˈfaːʁən]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #14,748 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "mit Fahrzeugen benutzt".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for befahren, with forms such as "bbefahren", "beafhren", and "befahern". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "bewahre", "bejahen", "bezahlen", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 befahren, spelled B-E-F-A-H-R-E-N.
Definition
- 1mit Fahrzeugen benutzt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how befahren appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Denn die Deutsche Bucht ist nicht nur eine der befahrensten Wasserstraßen der Welt, sondern gleichzeitig ein riesiger Schiffsfriedhof.“
„Als wir in Choiniki eintreffen, einer Ansammlung von Plattenbauten an sechsspurigen, kaum befahrenen Straßen, von dem aus der Sperrbezirk verwaltet wird, ist der zuständige Beamte nicht an seinem Platz.“
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbefahren
- beafhren
- befahern
- befahhren
- befahrenn
- befahrne
- befahrren
- befarhen
- beffahren
- befharen
- bfeahren
- ebfahren
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of befahren - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "befahren", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).