Befreiung
[bəˈfʁaɪ̯ʊŋ]
The verdict
“Befreiung” has 13 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #6,278. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,278
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (häufig irreguläre) Beendigung von Gefangenschaft oder Haft
Corpus desk
Index DE-befreiung · Befreiung · German
Befreiung · rank #6,278 · 13 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,278
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH beeindruckend
Nearest frequency peer: beeindruckend (-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 „Befreiung“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Bass
Bass
93,726 corpus weight
- bedanken
bedanken
93,725 corpus weight
- beeindrucke…
beeindruckend
93,724 corpus weight
- Befreiung
Befreiung
93,723 corpus weight
- Belohnung
Belohnung
93,722 corpus weight
- Bi
Bi
93,721 corpus weight
What this shows „Befreiung“ 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 | Befreiung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [bəˈfʁaɪ̯ʊŋ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #6,278 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Befreiung“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Befreiung (IPA [bəˈfʁaɪ̯ʊŋ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,278 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Befreiung, with forms such as "bbefreiung", "beferiung", and "beffreiung". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Betreuung", "befreien", "Befragung", and more, 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 explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Befreiung, spelled B-E-F-R-E-I-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1(häufig irreguläre) Beendigung von Gefangenschaft oder Haft
- 2Beendigung von Repression oder Besatzung
- 3Beendigung von Leiden, Krankheit oder anderen Belastungen
- 4Entbindung von der Pflicht zur Einhaltung bestimmter Regeln
- 5Aufhebung eines repressiven Verbots im Einzelfall
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Befreiung appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Befreiung der zehn Jahre nach Kriegsende noch in der Sowjetunion zurückgehaltenen etwa zehntausend deutschen Kriegsgefangenen gilt als eine seiner größten politischen Leistungen.
„In Dachau erlebten 60000 Häftlinge ihre Befreiung; auch dort hatte der Typhus viele hinweggerafft.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbefreiung
- beferiung
- beffreiung
- befreinug
- befreiugn
- befreiungg
- befreiunng
- befreuing
- befrieung
- befrreiung
- berfeiung
- bfereiung
- ebfreiung
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Befreiung - 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 "Befreiung", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).