Befürchtung

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Befürchtung is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [bəˈfʏʁçtʊŋ]. Corpus data places it at rank #16,643 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "furchtvolle, schreckliche oder schlimme Erwartung beziehungsweise Annahme".

Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for Befürchtung, with forms such as "bbefürchtung", "beffürchtung", and "befrüchtung". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Befürchtungen", "befürchten", "Befruchtung", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Befürchtung, spelled B-E-F-Ü-R-C-H-T-U-N-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.