begeben
[bəˈɡeːbn̩]
The verdict
“begeben” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #6,638. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,638
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - geschehen, sich ereignen
Corpus desk
Index DE-begeben · begeben · German
begeben · rank #6,638 · 10 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,638
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH befanden
Nearest frequency peer: befanden (-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 „begeben“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- ausgestellt
ausgestellt
93,366 corpus weight
- Award
Award
93,365 corpus weight
- befanden
befanden
93,364 corpus weight
- begeben
begeben
93,363 corpus weight
- beherrschen
beherrschen
93,362 corpus weight
- beigetragen
beigetragen
93,361 corpus weight
What this shows „begeben“ 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 | begeben |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [bəˈɡeːbn̩] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #6,638 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „begeben“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around begeben (IPA [bəˈɡeːbn̩]), averb. Corpus frequency is #6,638 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for begeben, with forms such as "bbegeben", "beegben", and "begbeen". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "bewegen", "blieben", "belegen", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 begeben, spelled B-E-G-E-B-E-N.
Definition
- 1geschehen, sich ereignen
- 2einen Ort aufsuchen
- 3sich in einen Zustand versetzen
- 4eine Tätigkeit aufnehmen
- 5auf etwas verzichten, sich etwas entledigen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how begeben appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Es begab sich aber zu der Zeit, dass ein Gebot von dem Kaiser Augustus ausging, dass alle Welt geschätzt würde.“
Begib dich bitte in die Küche.
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbegeben
- beegben
- begbeen
- begebben
- begebenn
- begebne
- begeebn
- beggeben
- bgeeben
- ebgeben
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of begeben - 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 "begeben", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).