befolgen
[bəˈfɔlɡn̩]
The verdict
“befolgen” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #14,749. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,749
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (einen Befehl) ausführen
Corpus desk
Index DE-befolgen · befolgen · German
befolgen · rank #14,749 · 12 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,749
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH befahren
Nearest frequency peer: befahren (-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 „befolgen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- 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
- Belegschaft
Belegschaft
85,250 corpus weight
What this shows „befolgen“ 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 | befolgen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [bəˈfɔlɡn̩] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #14,749 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „befolgen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around befolgen (IPA [bəˈfɔlɡn̩]), averb. Corpus frequency is #14,749 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "(einen Befehl) ausführen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for befolgen, with forms such as "bbefolgen", "beffolgen", and "beflogen". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "bezogen", "befolgt", "belogen", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is befolgen, spelled B-E-F-O-L-G-E-N.
Definition
- 1(einen Befehl) ausführen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how befolgen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sie befolgte den Befehl der Vorgesetzten sofort.
Befolgen Sie bitte den Anweisungen, um das gewünschte Ziel zu erreichen.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbefolgen
- beffolgen
- beflogen
- befoglen
- befolegn
- befolgenn
- befolggen
- befolgne
- befollgen
- beoflgen
- bfeolgen
- ebfolgen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of befolgen - 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 "befolgen", 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).