beichten
[ˈbaɪ̯çtn̩]
The verdict
“beichten” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #39,234. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,234
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - seine Sünden und Vergehen einem Geistlichen erzählen; seine Sünden bekennen
Corpus desk
Index DE-beichten · beichten · German
beichten · rank #39,234 · 12 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,234
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH begabten
Nearest frequency peer: begabten (-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 „beichten“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- beeindruckte
beeindruckte
60,770 corpus weight
- Beförderung…
Beförderungen
60,769 corpus weight
- begabten
begabten
60,768 corpus weight
- beichten
beichten
60,767 corpus weight
- beileibe
beileibe
60,766 corpus weight
- beistehen
beistehen
60,764 corpus weight
What this shows „beichten“ 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 | beichten |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈbaɪ̯çtn̩] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #39,234 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „beichten“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around beichten (IPA [ˈbaɪ̯çtn̩]), averb. Corpus frequency is #39,234 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for beichten, with forms such as "bbeichten", "becihten", and "beicchten". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "Buchten", "Berichte", "brachten", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 beichten, spelled B-E-I-C-H-T-E-N.
Definition
- 1seine Sünden und Vergehen einem Geistlichen erzählen; seine Sünden bekennen
- 2jemandem von selbstverschuldeten, meist schlechten Taten berichten
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how beichten appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Das letzte Mal habe ich vor zwei Monaten gebeichtet.
„Ich muss dir was beichten: Ich war der Verursacher des Autounfalls!“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbeichten
- becihten
- beicchten
- beichetn
- beichhten
- beichtenn
- beichtne
- beichtten
- beicthen
- beihcten
- biechten
- ebichten
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of beichten - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "beichten", 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).