begegnete
[bəˈɡeːɡnətə]
The verdict
“begegnete” has 13 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #21,183. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,183
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs begegnen
Corpus desk
Index DE-begegnete · begegnete · German
begegnete · rank #21,183 · 13 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,183
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH bedecken
Nearest frequency peer: bedecken (-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 „begegnete“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- bear
bear
78,821 corpus weight
- bedanke
bedanke
78,820 corpus weight
- bedecken
bedecken
78,819 corpus weight
- begegnete
begegnete
78,818 corpus weight
- Begutachtung
Begutachtung
78,817 corpus weight
- Bekanntheit
Bekanntheit
78,815 corpus weight
What this shows „begegnete“ 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 | begegnete |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [bəˈɡeːɡnətə] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #21,183 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „begegnete“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around begegnete (IPA [bəˈɡeːɡnətə]), averb. Corpus frequency is #21,183 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for begegnete, with forms such as "bbegegnete", "beeggnete", and "begegente". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "begegneten", "begegne", "begegnet", 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 its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is begegnete, spelled B-E-G-E-G-N-E-T-E.
Definition
- 11. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs begegnen
- 23. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs begegnen
- 31. Person Singular Konjunktiv Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs begegnen
- 43. Person Singular Konjunktiv Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs begegnen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbegegnete
- beeggnete
- begegente
- begeggnete
- begegneet
- begegnette
- begegnnete
- begegntee
- begengete
- beggegnete
- beggenete
- bgeegnete
- ebgegnete
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of begegnete - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "begegnete", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).