belief
[bəˈliːf]
The verdict
“belief” has 8 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #21,188. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,188
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs belaufen
Corpus desk
Index DE-belief · belief · German
belief · rank #21,188 · 8 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,188
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH beleidigend
Nearest frequency peer: beleidigend (-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 “belief”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Bekanntheit
Bekanntheit
78,815 corpus weight
- beleidigend
beleidigend
78,814 corpus weight
- belief
belief
78,813 corpus weight
- bemalt
bemalt
78,812 corpus weight
- Besitzerin
Besitzerin
78,811 corpus weight
- bessern
bessern
78,810 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “belief” 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 | belief |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [bəˈliːf] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #21,188 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “belief” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around belief (IPA [bəˈliːf]), averb. Corpus frequency is #21,188 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for belief, with forms such as "bbelief", "beilef", and "beleif". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "blieb", "Brief", "belle", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is belief, spelled B-E-L-I-E-F.
Definition
- 11. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs belaufen
- 23. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv des Verbs belaufen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbelief
- beilef
- beleif
- belieff
- belife
- bellief
- bleief
- eblief
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of belief - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "belief", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
You've looked up "belief". Here's where to go from here.
- "belief" maps to 15 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "blieb". View pair
- 8 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #21,188 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.