Befund
[bəˈfʊnt]
The verdict
“Befund” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #16,927. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,927
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ergebnis einer Prüfung, eines Tests; Bericht (beispielsweise eines Sachverständigen/Mediziners) darüber
Corpus desk
Index DE-befund · Befund · German
Befund · rank #16,927 · 9 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,927
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH befriedigt
Nearest frequency peer: befriedigt (-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 „Befund“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- befohlen
befohlen
83,077 corpus weight
- before
before
83,076 corpus weight
- befriedigt
befriedigt
83,075 corpus weight
- Befund
Befund
83,074 corpus weight
- beleuchten
beleuchten
83,073 corpus weight
- belästigen
belästigen
83,072 corpus weight
What this shows „Befund“ 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 | Befund |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [bəˈfʊnt] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #16,927 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Befund“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Befund (IPA [bəˈfʊnt]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,927 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Befund, with forms such as "bbefund", "beffund", and "befnud". 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, "Bund", "Bernd", "beyond", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Befund, spelled B-E-F-U-N-D.
Definition
- 1Ergebnis einer Prüfung, eines Tests; Bericht (beispielsweise eines Sachverständigen/Mediziners) darüber
- 2historisch aussagefähige Beobachtung in einer archäologischen Fundsituation
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Befund appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Befunde waren alle negativ und zeigten keinen Hinweis auf eine Erkrankung.
„Jetzt erweiterten die Entwickler OpenEyes um [ein Modul], mit dem Chirurgen ihre Befunde und Behandlungen inklusive Diagrammen und Bildern elektronisch erfassen können.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbefund
- beffund
- befnud
- befudn
- befundd
- befunnd
- beufnd
- bfeund
- ebfund
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Befund - 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 "Befund", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).