benetzt

[bəˈnɛt͡st]

/[bəˈnɛt͡st]/ verb

The verdict

“benetzt” is uncommon German (frequency #95,331 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#95,331
frequency rank, German
5,818
“B” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partizip Perfekt des Verbs benetzen

Corpus desk

Index DE-benetzt · benetzt · German

benetzt · rank #95,331 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #95,331
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,818
  • PHOTO-FINISH Benommenheit

Nearest frequency peer: Benommenheit (+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.

Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „benetzt“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „benetzt“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for benetzt
PropertyValue
Headwordbenetzt
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[bəˈnɛt͡st]
Letters7
Frequency rank#95,331
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „benetzt“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.benetztfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Benommenheit“ (#95,332), „Bejahung“ (#95,329), „bepackt“ (#95,333). Unter 5,818 „B“-Lemmata liegt „benetzt“ bei #95,331. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

benetzt is uncommon German at frequency #95,331 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [bəˈnɛt͡st]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partizip Perfekt des Verbs benetzen".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for benetzt, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is benetzt, spelled B-E-N-E-T-Z-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Partizip Perfekt des Verbs benetzen

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "benetzt"?
"benetzt" is spelled B-E-N-E-T-Z-T. The IPA pronunciation is [bəˈnɛt͡st].
What does "benetzt" mean?
As a verb, "benetzt" means: Partizip Perfekt des Verbs benetzen
How do you pronounce "benetzt"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "benetzt" is [bəˈnɛt͡st]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "benetzt" come from?
"benetzt" is a German word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "benetzt", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list