Beförderung
[bəˈfœʁdəʁʊŋ]
The verdict
“Beförderung” has 17 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #9,154. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,154
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - das Befördern oder das Transportieren von Gütern oder Personen
Corpus desk
Index DE-beforderung · Beförderung · German
Beförderung · rank #9,154 · 17 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,154
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH beat
Nearest frequency peer: beat (-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 „Beförderung“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- balance
balance
90,850 corpus weight
- Bann
Bann
90,849 corpus weight
- beat
beat
90,848 corpus weight
- Beförderung
Beförderung
90,847 corpus weight
- belasten
belasten
90,846 corpus weight
- bemerkbar
bemerkbar
90,845 corpus weight
What this shows „Beförderung“ 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 | Beförderung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [bəˈfœʁdəʁʊŋ] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #9,154 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Beförderung“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around Beförderung (IPA [bəˈfœʁdəʁʊŋ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,154 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for Beförderung, with forms such as "bbeförderung", "befförderung", and "befröderung". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Beförderungen", "befördern", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 Beförderung, spelled B-E-F-Ö-R-D-E-R-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1das Befördern oder das Transportieren von Gütern oder Personen
- 2die Einsetzung einer Person in eine höhere Stellung beziehungsweise Position im Berufsleben
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Beförderung appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Beförderung der Reisenden erfolgt bei Zugausfällen durch einen Ersatzverkehr mit Bussen.
Kuniberts Beförderung zum Filialleiter liegt nun auch wieder fast zehn Jahre zurück.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbeförderung
- befförderung
- befröderung
- befödrerung
- befördderung
- befördernug
- beförderrung
- beförderugn
- beförderungg
- beförderunng
- befördeurng
- befördreung
- beföredrung
- beförrderung
- beöfrderung
- bfeörderung
- ebförderung
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Beförderung - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "Beförderung", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).