Befrager
[bəˈfʁaːɡɐ]
The verdict
“Befrager” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - diejenige Person, die jemanden befragt
Corpus desk
Index DE-befrager · Befrager · German
Befrager · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Befrager |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [bəˈfʁaːɡɐ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Befrager“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Befrager is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [bəˈfʁaːɡɐ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "diejenige Person, die jemanden befragt".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Befrager, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is Befrager, spelled B-E-F-R-A-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1diejenige Person, die jemanden befragt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Befrager appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der Befrager fragte nach den Gründen der Berufswahl.
„Mehrfach schnitten die Befrager ihrem Zeugen bei der Antwort das Wort ab, als stehle er ihnen wichtige Kamerazeit.“
Antonyms
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.