befall
[bəˈfal]
The verdict
“befall” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #29,953. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,953
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs befallen
Corpus desk
Index DE-befall · befall · German
befall · rank #29,953 · 7 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,953
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH beachtlichen
Nearest frequency peer: beachtlichen (-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 „befall“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Baukunst
Baukunst
70,051 corpus weight
- beachtlichen
beachtlichen
70,049 corpus weight
- befall
befall
70,048 corpus weight
- befremdlich
befremdlich
70,047 corpus weight
- Belebung
Belebung
70,046 corpus weight
- Belehrung
Belehrung
70,045 corpus weight
What this shows „befall“ 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 | befall |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [bəˈfal] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #29,953 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „befall“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around befall (IPA [bəˈfal]), averb. Corpus frequency is #29,953 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs befallen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for befall, with forms such as "bbefall", "beafll", and "befal". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "bell", "befand", "Befehl", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is befall, spelled B-E-F-A-L-L.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs befallen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbefall
- beafll
- befal
- beffall
- beflal
- bfeall
- ebfall
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of befall - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "befall", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).