befasse

[bəˈfasə]

/[bəˈfasə]/ verb

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The verdict

“befasse” is uncommon German (frequency #51,145 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#51,145
frequency rank, German
5,818
“B” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs befassen

Corpus desk

Index DE-befasse · befasse · German

befasse · rank #51,145 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #51,145
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,818
  • PHOTO-FINISH befriedigende

Nearest frequency peer: befriedigende (+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 „befasse“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „befasse“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for befasse
PropertyValue
Headwordbefasse
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[bəˈfasə]
Letters7
Frequency rank#51,145
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „befasse“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.befassefällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Ticks laufen logarithmisch; jeder ist rund zehnmal seltener. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „befriedigende“ (#51,146), „BDP“ (#51,143), „Begleiterscheinungen“ (#51,147). Unter 5,818 „B“-Lemmata liegt „befasse“ bei #51,145. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

befasse is uncommon German at frequency #51,145 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [bəˈfasə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for befasse, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

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 befasse, spelled B-E-F-A-S-S-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    1. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs befassen
  2. 2
    1. Person Singular Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv des Verbs befassen
  3. 3
    3. Person Singular Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv des Verbs befassen
  4. 4
    2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs befassen

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "befasse"?
"befasse" is spelled B-E-F-A-S-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is [bəˈfasə].
What does "befasse" mean?
As a verb, "befasse" means: 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs befassen
How do you pronounce "befasse"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "befasse" is [bəˈfasə]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "befasse" come from?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "befasse", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

beherzt#51,149bekehrt#51,152Badeort#51,136Biegung#51,166

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list