bekam
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,690
in German word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
17
similar word pairs
bekam is aGermanverb. It means: 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs bekommen Pronounced [bəˈkaːm]. It ranks #1,690 in German word frequency. Often confused with BKA and Beta.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bekam |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [bəˈkaːm] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,690 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for bekam is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [bəˈkaːm]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,690 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 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for bekam, with forms such as "bbekam", "beakm", and "bekamm". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "BKA", "Beta", "berät", 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 bekam, spelled B-E-K-A-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 11. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs bekommen
- 23. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs bekommen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbekam,beakm,bekamm,bekkam,bekma,bkeam,ebkam
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bekam
Misspelling Variants of "bekam"
Frequency rank: #1,690 in German
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Nearby German words
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