begünstigen
[bəˈɡʏnstɪɡn̩]
The verdict
“begünstigen” has 17 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #24,261. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,261
- frequency rank, German
- 72,680
- “B” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - förderlich auf etwas oder auch jemanden wirken
Corpus desk
Index DE-begunstigen · begünstigen · German
begünstigen · rank #24,261 · 17 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,261
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 72,680
- PHOTO-FINISH Begründungen
Nearest frequency peer: Begründungen (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “begünstigen”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- bedingungsl…
bedingungslos
75,743 corpus weight
- Befugnis
Befugnis
75,742 corpus weight
- Begründungen
Begründungen
75,741 corpus weight
- begünstigen
begünstigen
75,740 corpus weight
- benachricht…
benachrichtigen
75,739 corpus weight
- bescheidene
bescheidene
75,738 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “begünstigen” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | begünstigen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [bəˈɡʏnstɪɡn̩] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #24,261 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “begünstigen” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around begünstigen (IPA [bəˈɡʏnstɪɡn̩]), averb. Corpus frequency is #24,261 among 72,680 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for begünstigen, with forms such as "bbegünstigen", "beggünstigen", and "begnüstigen". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "begünstigt", "begünstigte", "begünstigten", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is begünstigen, spelled B-E-G-Ü-N-S-T-I-G-E-N.
Definition
- 1förderlich auf etwas oder auch jemanden wirken
- 2etwas oder jemanden deutlich besser behandeln und somit bevorzugen
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbegünstigen
- beggünstigen
- begnüstigen
- begünnstigen
- begünsitgen
- begünsstigen
- begünstgien
- begünstiegn
- begünstigenn
- begünstiggen
- begünstigne
- begünsttigen
- begüntsigen
- begüsntigen
- beügnstigen
- bgeünstigen
- ebgünstigen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of begünstigen - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "begünstigen", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.