bemessen
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#22,272
in German word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
bemessen is aGermanverb. It means: festlegen, welchen Umfang etwas haben soll, und sich dabei an vorhandenen Größen/Eigenschaften/Prioritäten orientieren Pronounced [bəˈmɛsn̩]. Often confused with beweisen and besessen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bemessen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [bəˈmɛsn̩] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #22,272 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for bemessen is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [bəˈmɛsn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #22,272 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for bemessen, with forms such as "bbemessen", "beemssen", and "bemesen". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "beweisen", "besessen", "bereisen", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is bemessen, spelled B-E-M-E-S-S-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1festlegen, welchen Umfang etwas haben soll, und sich dabei an vorhandenen Größen/Eigenschaften/Prioritäten orientieren
- 2sich in Größe/Umfang nach einem Kriterium richten
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbemessen,beemssen,bemesen,bemesesn,bemessenn,bemessne,bemeßen,bemmessen,bemsesen,bmeessen,ebmessen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bemessen
Misspelling Variants of "bemessen"
Frequency rank: #22,272 in German
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Nearby German words
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