Befürchtung
[bəˈfʏʁçtʊŋ]
The verdict
“Befürchtung” has 18 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #16,643. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,643
- frequency rank, German
- 72,680
- “B” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - furchtvolle, schreckliche oder schlimme Erwartung beziehungsweise Annahme
Corpus desk
Index DE-befurchtung · Befürchtung · German
Befürchtung · rank #16,643 · 18 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,643
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 72,680
- PHOTO-FINISH befahl
Nearest frequency peer: befahl (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Befürchtung”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- auspacken
auspacken
83,361 corpus weight
- Babylon
Babylon
83,360 corpus weight
- befahl
befahl
83,359 corpus weight
- Befürchtung
Befürchtung
83,358 corpus weight
- begreift
begreift
83,357 corpus weight
- behilflich
behilflich
83,356 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Befürchtung” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | Befürchtung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [bəˈfʏʁçtʊŋ] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #16,643 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Befürchtung” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around Befürchtung (IPA [bəˈfʏʁçtʊŋ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,643 among 72,680 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "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". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Befürchtungen", "befürchten", "Befruchtung", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Befürchtung, spelled B-E-F-Ü-R-C-H-T-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1furchtvolle, schreckliche oder schlimme Erwartung beziehungsweise Annahme
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbefürchtung
- beffürchtung
- befrüchtung
- befücrhtung
- befürcchtung
- befürchhtung
- befürchtnug
- befürchttung
- befürchtugn
- befürchtungg
- befürchtunng
- befürchutng
- befürcthung
- befürhctung
- befürrchtung
- beüfrchtung
- bfeürchtung
- ebfürchtung
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Befürchtung - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Befürchtung", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.