bekennen
[bəˈkɛnən]
The verdict
“bekennen” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #12,672. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,672
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - etwas offen zugeben; etwas öffentlich sagen
Corpus desk
Index DE-bekennen · bekennen · German
bekennen · rank #12,672 · 10 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,672
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH beklagten
Nearest frequency peer: beklagten (+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 „bekennen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Azubis
Azubis
87,332 corpus weight
- baue
baue
87,331 corpus weight
- bekennen
bekennen
87,329 corpus weight
- beklagten
beklagten
87,328 corpus weight
- beliebtes
beliebtes
87,327 corpus weight
- Beratungen
Beratungen
87,326 corpus weight
What this shows „bekennen“ 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 | bekennen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [bəˈkɛnən] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #12,672 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „bekennen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around bekennen (IPA [bəˈkɛnən]), averb. Corpus frequency is #12,672 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for bekennen, with forms such as "bbekennen", "beeknnen", and "bekenen". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "brennen", "bekennt", "benennen", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is bekennen, spelled B-E-K-E-N-N-E-N.
Definition
- 1etwas offen zugeben; etwas öffentlich sagen
- 2offen zugeben; öffentlich sagen
- 3offen bekunden, welcher Religion man angehört
- 4eine Zugehörigkeit oder Vorliebe zu etwas erklären
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bekennen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Würde Frank seinen Fehler bekennen, würde ich es ihm nicht so böse nehmen.
„Die vielen Windräder seiner ostfriesischen Heimat vermisse er, bekannte er unlängst.“
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbekennen
- beeknnen
- bekenen
- bekenenn
- bekennenn
- bekennne
- bekkennen
- beknenen
- bkeennen
- ebkennen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bekennen - 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 "bekennen", 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).