belehren
[bəˈleːʁən]
The verdict
“belehren” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #19,151. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,151
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - jemandem eine wichtige Information geben
Corpus desk
Index DE-belehren · belehren · German
belehren · rank #19,151 · 12 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,151
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Bekanntmachung
Nearest frequency peer: Bekanntmachung (-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 „belehren“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Beifahrer
Beifahrer
80,852 corpus weight
- Bekanntmach…
Bekanntmachung
80,851 corpus weight
- belehren
belehren
80,850 corpus weight
- benennt
benennt
80,849 corpus weight
- beschafft
beschafft
80,848 corpus weight
- beschädigte
beschädigte
80,847 corpus weight
What this shows „belehren“ 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 | belehren |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [bəˈleːʁən] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #19,151 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „belehren“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around belehren (IPA [bəˈleːʁən]), averb. Corpus frequency is #19,151 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for belehren, with forms such as "bbelehren", "beelhren", and "belehern". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "belehrt", "bewahren", "berühren", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is belehren, spelled B-E-L-E-H-R-E-N.
Definition
- 1jemandem eine wichtige Information geben
- 2jemandem (manchmal auch ungefragt und selbstgefällig von oben herab) eine Information (Lehre, Belehrung) geben, um ihn in seinem (irrigen, falschen) Denken und Handeln zu verändern
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how belehren appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der Angeklagte wurde über seine Rechte belehrt.
Die frische Gesichtsfarbe belehrte sie, dass das Gröbste überstanden war und der Patient auf dem Wege der Besserung.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbelehren
- beelhren
- belehern
- belehhren
- belehrenn
- belehrne
- belehrren
- belerhen
- belheren
- bellehren
- bleehren
- eblehren
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of belehren - 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 "belehren", 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 (12 here; floor ≥5).