begründen
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,875
in German word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
begründen is aGermanverb. It means: einen Grund, eine Ursache für etwas benennen Pronounced [bəˈɡʁʏndn̩]. It ranks #7,875 in German word frequency. Often confused with Bekunden and begründet.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | begründen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [bəˈɡʁʏndn̩] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #7,875 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for begründen is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [bəˈɡʁʏndn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #7,875 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for begründen, with forms such as "bbegründen", "beggründen", and "begrnüden". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "Bekunden", "begründet", "betrunken", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is begründen, spelled B-E-G-R-Ü-N-D-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1einen Grund, eine Ursache für etwas benennen
- 2für etwas die Voraussetzung schaffen
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbegründen,beggründen,begrnüden,begrründen,begrüdnen,begründden,begründenn,begründne,begrünedn,begrünnden,begürnden,bergünden,bgeründen,ebgründen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for begründen
Misspelling Variants of "begründen"
Frequency rank: #7,875 in German
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