bekannt
[bəˈkant]
The verdict
“bekannt” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #463. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #463
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - von vielen gekannt, im Allgemeinwissen vorhanden
Corpus desk
Index DE-bekannt · bekannt · German
bekannt · rank #463 · 9 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #463
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Strasse
Nearest frequency peer: Strasse (-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 „bekannt“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- rund
rund
99,541 corpus weight
- SPD
SPD
99,540 corpus weight
- Strasse
Strasse
99,539 corpus weight
- bekannt
bekannt
99,538 corpus weight
- bisher
bisher
99,537 corpus weight
- Eltern
Eltern
99,536 corpus weight
What this shows „bekannt“ 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 | bekannt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [bəˈkant] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #463 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „bekannt“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around bekannt (IPA [bəˈkant]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #463 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for bekannt, with forms such as "bbekannt", "beaknnt", and "bekanntt". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "benannt", "bekennt", "benennt", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is bekannt, spelled B-E-K-A-N-N-T.
Definition
- 1von vielen gekannt, im Allgemeinwissen vorhanden
- 2von vielen gekannt, im Allgemeinwissen vorhanden
- 3von vielen gekannt, im Allgemeinwissen vorhanden
- 4im Gedächtnis vorhanden
- 5mit jemandem bekannt sein (von Personen): man hat sich kennengelernt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bekannt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der Klimawandel ist mittlerweile eine bekannte Tatsache geworden.
Ihre Lieder sind weltweit bekannt.
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbekannt
- beaknnt
- bekanntt
- bekant
- bekantn
- bekkannt
- beknant
- bkeannt
- ebkannt
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bekannt - 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.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bekannt", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).