befindlich
[bəˈfɪntlɪç]
The verdict
“befindlich” is uncommon German (frequency #83,715 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,715
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sich an einer bestimmten Stelle, einem bestimmten Ort befindend
Corpus desk
Index DE-befindlich · befindlich · German
befindlich · rank #83,715 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,715
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH bedarfsgerecht
Nearest frequency peer: bedarfsgerecht (-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 „befindlich“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Bauteils
Bauteils
16,289 corpus weight
- became
became
16,288 corpus weight
- bedarfsgere…
bedarfsgerecht
16,287 corpus weight
- befindlich
befindlich
16,286 corpus weight
- begegnest
begegnest
16,285 corpus weight
- begehrtes
begehrtes
16,284 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „befindlich“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | befindlich |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [bəˈfɪntlɪç] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #83,715 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „befindlich“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
befindlich is uncommon German at frequency #83,715 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [bəˈfɪntlɪç]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for befindlich in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists 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 befindlich, spelled B-E-F-I-N-D-L-I-C-H.
Definition
- 1sich an einer bestimmten Stelle, einem bestimmten Ort befindend
- 2sich in einem bestimmten Zustand, einer bestimmten Situation befindend
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how befindlich appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Es sichert den Eigentümern des Bodens über dem Salzstock das Recht, alle darunter befindlichen Bodenschätze auszubeuten – oder es, ganz nach Belieben, eben nicht zu tun.
Die auf dem Areal befindlichen knapp 800 Grundstücke und 200 Wohnhäuser sollten innerhalb von 20 Jahren von der Regierung aufgekauft, das Gelände renaturiert werden.
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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