benötige
[bəˈnøːtɪɡə]
The verdict
“benötige” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #14,518. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,518
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs benötigen
Corpus desk
Index DE-benotige · benötige · German
benötige · rank #14,518 · 11 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,518
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Belagerung
Nearest frequency peer: Belagerung (-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 „benötige“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- begibt
begibt
85,486 corpus weight
- Belagerung
Belagerung
85,484 corpus weight
- benötige
benötige
85,483 corpus weight
- Berlinale
Berlinale
85,482 corpus weight
- Berufs
Berufs
85,481 corpus weight
- beruft
beruft
85,480 corpus weight
What this shows „benötige“ 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 | benötige |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [bəˈnøːtɪɡə] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #14,518 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „benötige“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around benötige (IPA [bəˈnøːtɪɡə]), averb. Corpus frequency is #14,518 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for benötige, with forms such as "bbenötige", "bennötige", and "bentöige". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "benötigt", "benötigen", "benötigte", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is benötige, spelled B-E-N-Ö-T-I-G-E.
Definition
- 11. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs benötigen
- 21. Person Singular Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv des Verbs benötigen
- 33. Person Singular Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv des Verbs benötigen
- 42. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs benötigen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbenötige
- bennötige
- bentöige
- benöitge
- benötgie
- benötieg
- benötigge
- benöttige
- beöntige
- bneötige
- ebnötige
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of benötige - 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 "benötige", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).