Begattung
[bəˈɡatʊŋ]
The verdict
“Begattung” is uncommon German (frequency #98,167 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,167
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - geschlechtliche Vereinigung eines Mannes/Männchens und einer Frau/eines Weibchens
Corpus desk
Index DE-begattung · Begattung · German
Begattung · rank #98,167 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,167
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Begräbnisse
Nearest frequency peer: Begräbnisse (+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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Begattung“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- bedürftiger
bedürftiger
1,838 corpus weight
- beeilte
beeilte
1,837 corpus weight
- Begattung
Begattung
1,834 corpus weight
- Begräbnisse
Begräbnisse
1,833 corpus weight
- begrünt
begrünt
1,832 corpus weight
- behämmert
behämmert
1,830 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Begattung“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Begattung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [bəˈɡatʊŋ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #98,167 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Begattung“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Begattung is uncommon German at frequency #98,167 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [bəˈɡatʊŋ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "geschlechtliche Vereinigung eines Mannes/Männchens und einer Frau/eines Weibchens".
Begattung has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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. The correct German form is Begattung, spelled B-E-G-A-T-T-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1geschlechtliche Vereinigung eines Mannes/Männchens und einer Frau/eines Weibchens
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Begattung appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Eine Begattung kann man sehr romantisch gestalten.
This word in other languages
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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