belügen
[bəˈlyːɡn̩]
The verdict
“belügen” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #31,957. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,957
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - jemandem eine Unwahrheit erzählen, bewusst Lügen verbreiten
Corpus desk
Index DE-belugen · belügen · German
belügen · rank #31,957 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,957
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH beleuchteten
Nearest frequency peer: beleuchteten (-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 „belügen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- beisteuern
beisteuern
68,047 corpus weight
- beizubehalt…
beizubehalten
68,046 corpus weight
- beleuchteten
beleuchteten
68,045 corpus weight
- belügen
belügen
68,044 corpus weight
- bemühten
bemühten
68,043 corpus weight
- Beratungsst…
Beratungsstellen
68,042 corpus weight
What this shows „belügen“ 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 | belügen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [bəˈlyːɡn̩] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #31,957 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „belügen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around belügen (IPA [bəˈlyːɡn̩]), averb. Corpus frequency is #31,957 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "jemandem eine Unwahrheit erzählen, bewusst Lügen verbreiten".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for belügen, with forms such as "bbelügen", "belgüen", and "bellügen". 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, "Blumen", "bergen", "Bezüge", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 belügen, spelled B-E-L-Ü-G-E-N.
Definition
- 1jemandem eine Unwahrheit erzählen, bewusst Lügen verbreiten
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how belügen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Er hat mich nur belogen.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbelügen
- belgüen
- bellügen
- belüegn
- belügenn
- belüggen
- belügne
- beülgen
- bleügen
- eblügen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of belügen - 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 "belügen", 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).