befristet
[bəˈfʁɪstət]
The verdict
“befristet” has 14 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #19,510. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,510
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - zeitlich begrenzt
Corpus desk
Index DE-befristet · befristet · German
befristet · rank #19,510 · 14 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,510
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH befestigen
Nearest frequency peer: befestigen (-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 „befristet“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Beeinflussu…
Beeinflussung
80,494 corpus weight
- Beeinträcht…
Beeinträchtigungen
80,493 corpus weight
- befestigen
befestigen
80,492 corpus weight
- befristet
befristet
80,491 corpus weight
- befürchtete
befürchtete
80,490 corpus weight
- beging
beging
80,489 corpus weight
What this shows „befristet“ 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 | befristet |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [bəˈfʁɪstət] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #19,510 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „befristet“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around befristet (IPA [bəˈfʁɪstət]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #19,510 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "zeitlich begrenzt".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for befristet, with forms such as "bbefristet", "beffristet", and "befirstet". 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, "befristete", "befristeten", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is befristet, spelled B-E-F-R-I-S-T-E-T.
Definition
- 1zeitlich begrenzt
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how befristet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der Mietvertrag ist auf drei Jahre befristet.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbefristet
- beffristet
- befirstet
- befrisett
- befrisstet
- befristett
- befristte
- befristtet
- befritset
- befrristet
- befrsitet
- berfistet
- bferistet
- ebfristet
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of befristet - 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 "befristet", 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 (14 here; floor ≥5).