Befehlsgewalt
[bəˈfeːlsɡəˌvalt]
The verdict
“Befehlsgewalt” is uncommon German (frequency #66,027 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,027
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Recht oder Befugnis, Befehle zu erteilen
Corpus desk
Index DE-befehlsgewalt · Befehlsgewalt · German
Befehlsgewalt · rank #66,027 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,027
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH beengt
Nearest frequency peer: beengt (-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 „Befehlsgewalt“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- bedeutungsl…
bedeutungslosen
33,977 corpus weight
- beengt
beengt
33,975 corpus weight
- Befehlsgewa…
Befehlsgewalt
33,974 corpus weight
- befände
befände
33,973 corpus weight
- begnadeter
begnadeter
33,972 corpus weight
- Behaglichke…
Behaglichkeit
33,971 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Befehlsgewalt“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Befehlsgewalt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [bəˈfeːlsɡəˌvalt] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #66,027 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Befehlsgewalt“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Befehlsgewalt is uncommon German at frequency #66,027 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [bəˈfeːlsɡəˌvalt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Recht oder Befugnis, Befehle zu erteilen".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Befehlsgewalt in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Befehlsgewalt, spelled B-E-F-E-H-L-S-G-E-W-A-L-T.
Definition
- 1Recht oder Befugnis, Befehle zu erteilen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Befehlsgewalt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bisher hatten stets Russen oder Amerikaner die Befehlsgewalt auf der Station.
Die Bürde der Befehlsgewalt gebe ich gerne ab.
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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