belegen
[bəˈleːɡn̩]
The verdict
“belegen” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #4,101. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,101
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - den Beweis für etwas erbringen
Corpus desk
Index DE-belegen · belegen · German
belegen · rank #4,101 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,101
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH befreit
Nearest frequency peer: befreit (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “belegen”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- beachten
beachten
95,902 corpus weight
- befreit
befreit
95,901 corpus weight
- belegen
belegen
95,900 corpus weight
- besonderer
besonderer
95,899 corpus weight
- bestanden
bestanden
95,898 corpus weight
- bestens
bestens
95,897 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “belegen” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | belegen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [bəˈleːɡn̩] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #4,101 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “belegen” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around belegen (IPA [bəˈleːɡn̩]), averb. Corpus frequency is #4,101 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for belegen, with forms such as "bbelegen", "beelgen", and "beleegn". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "belegt", "bergen", "bellen", 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 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 belegen, spelled B-E-L-E-G-E-N.
Definition
- 1den Beweis für etwas erbringen
- 2etwas auf etwas legen
- 3etwas mit etwas versehen
- 4einen Platz, Rang einnehmen
- 5sich für eine Lehrveranstaltung (einen Kurs, ein Seminar) einschreiben, diese besuchen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how belegen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Er hat seine Behauptung nicht belegt.
[…] Wissenschaftliche Erhebungen belegen, dass frühkindliche Bildung spätere schulische Leistungen, soziale Kompetenz und sprachliche Fähigkeiten verbessert.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbelegen
- beelgen
- beleegn
- belegenn
- beleggen
- belegne
- belgeen
- bellegen
- bleegen
- eblegen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of belegen - 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "belegen", 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
You've looked up "belegen". Here's where to go from here.
- "belegen" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "belegt". View pair
- 10 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #4,101 among German headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more German words in the "B" letter cohort. B–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.