believe
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The verdict
“believe” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #24,638. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,638
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - etwas glauben
Corpus desk
Index DE-believe · believe · German
believe · rank #24,638 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,638
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH benachrichtigt
Nearest frequency peer: benachrichtigt (+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 „believe“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- behind
behind
75,366 corpus weight
- Behinderter
Behinderter
75,365 corpus weight
- believe
believe
75,363 corpus weight
- benachricht…
benachrichtigt
75,362 corpus weight
- Berufswahl
Berufswahl
75,361 corpus weight
- bescheinigt
bescheinigt
75,360 corpus weight
What this shows „believe“ 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 | believe |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #24,638 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „believe“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around believe (IPA […]), averb. Corpus frequency is #24,638 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for believe, with forms such as "bbelieve", "beileve", and "beleive". 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, "bliebe", "beziehe", "Bellevue", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is believe, spelled B-E-L-I-E-V-E.
Definition
- 1etwas glauben
- 2einer Aussage Glauben schenken
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how believe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise t…
Believe it or not, they believe in UFOs.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbelieve
- beileve
- beleive
- belieev
- believve
- belivee
- bellieve
- bleieve
- eblieve
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of believe - 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 "believe", 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).