begnügen
[bəˈɡnyːɡn̩]
The verdict
“begnügen” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #18,184. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,184
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mit etwas Einfachem oder mit weniger zufrieden sein, als man haben könnte
Corpus desk
Index DE-begnugen · begnügen · German
begnügen · rank #18,184 · 12 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,184
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Befriedigung
Nearest frequency peer: Befriedigung (-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 „begnügen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- bediente
bediente
81,820 corpus weight
- bedrohlich
bedrohlich
81,819 corpus weight
- Befriedigung
Befriedigung
81,818 corpus weight
- begnügen
begnügen
81,817 corpus weight
- belebt
belebt
81,816 corpus weight
- Bequemlichk…
Bequemlichkeit
81,815 corpus weight
What this shows „begnügen“ 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 | begnügen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [bəˈɡnyːɡn̩] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #18,184 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „begnügen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around begnügen (IPA [bəˈɡnyːɡn̩]), averb. Corpus frequency is #18,184 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "mit etwas Einfachem oder mit weniger zufrieden sein, als man haben könnte".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for begnügen, with forms such as "bbegnügen", "beggnügen", and "begngüen". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "beugen", "belügen", "Bezügen", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is begnügen, spelled B-E-G-N-Ü-G-E-N.
Definition
- 1mit etwas Einfachem oder mit weniger zufrieden sein, als man haben könnte
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how begnügen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aus ebendiesem Grund hatte sich Andreas auch mir gegenüber mit einer bloßen Andeutung begnügt.
„Sie begnügten sich mit den provenzalischen Stierspielen - da bleibt der Stier am Leben.“
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbegnügen
- beggnügen
- begngüen
- begnnügen
- begnüegn
- begnügenn
- begnüggen
- begnügne
- begüngen
- bengügen
- bgenügen
- ebgnügen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of begnügen - 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.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "begnügen", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).