begründe

[bəˈɡʁʏndə]

/[bəˈɡʁʏndə]/ verb

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The verdict

“begründe” is uncommon German (frequency #75,436 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#75,436
frequency rank, German
5,818
“B” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs begründen

Corpus desk

Index DE-begrunde · begründe · German

begründe · rank #75,436 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #75,436
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,818
  • PHOTO-FINISH behandelbar

Nearest frequency peer: behandelbar (+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 „begründe“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „begründe“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for begründe
PropertyValue
Headwordbegründe
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[bəˈɡʁʏndə]
Letters8
Frequency rank#75,436
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „begründe“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.begründefällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „behandelbar“ (#75,437), „befallene“ (#75,434), „beherrschbar“ (#75,438). Unter 5,818 „B“-Lemmata liegt „begründe“ bei #75,436. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

begründe is uncommon German at frequency #75,436 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [bəˈɡʁʏndə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.

Zero misspellings are on record for begründe in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

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 begründe, spelled B-E-G-R-Ü-N-D-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    1. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs begründen
  2. 2
    1. Person Singular Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv des Verbs begründen
  3. 3
    3. Person Singular Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv des Verbs begründen
  4. 4
    2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs begründen

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "begründe"?
"begründe" is spelled B-E-G-R-Ü-N-D-E. The IPA pronunciation is [bəˈɡʁʏndə].
What does "begründe" mean?
As a verb, "begründe" means: 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs begründen
How do you pronounce "begründe"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "begründe" is [bəˈɡʁʏndə]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "begründe" come from?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "begründe", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Bauwagen#75,429belgisch#75,443Backdoor#75,417Bachbett#75,416

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list