belästigen
[bəˈlɛstɪɡn̩]
The verdict
“belästigen” has 15 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #16,929. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,929
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - jemanden aktiv stören und bei demjenigen ein Unwohlsein erzeugen
Corpus desk
Index DE-belastigen · belästigen · German
belästigen · rank #16,929 · 15 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,929
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH beleuchten
Nearest frequency peer: beleuchten (-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 „belästigen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- befriedigt
befriedigt
83,075 corpus weight
- Befund
Befund
83,074 corpus weight
- beleuchten
beleuchten
83,073 corpus weight
- belästigen
belästigen
83,072 corpus weight
- bereitstell…
bereitstellen
83,071 corpus weight
- bergauf
bergauf
83,070 corpus weight
What this shows „belästigen“ 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 | belästigen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [bəˈlɛstɪɡn̩] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #16,929 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „belästigen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around belästigen (IPA [bəˈlɛstɪɡn̩]), averb. Corpus frequency is #16,929 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "jemanden aktiv stören und bei demjenigen ein Unwohlsein erzeugen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for belästigen, with forms such as "bbelästigen", "bellästigen", and "belsätigen". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "belästigt", "betätigen", "bewältigen", 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 pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is belästigen, spelled B-E-L-Ä-S-T-I-G-E-N.
Definition
- 1jemanden aktiv stören und bei demjenigen ein Unwohlsein erzeugen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how belästigen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„‚Wir haben die Punks nie dazu aufgefordert, die Mieter zu belästigen‘, so einer der Eigentümer.“
„Einige Einwohner fühlen sich auch dadurch belästigt, dass es den Wehrborn-Mitarbeitern anscheinend nicht gelingt, vor allem abends verbindliche Ausgangs- und Anwesenheitszeiten in der Einrichtung durchzusetzen.“
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbelästigen
- bellästigen
- belsätigen
- beläsitgen
- belässtigen
- belästgien
- belästiegn
- belästigenn
- belästiggen
- belästigne
- belästtigen
- belätsigen
- beälstigen
- bleästigen
- eblästigen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of belästigen - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).