benutzen
[bəˈnʊt͡sn̩]
The verdict
“benutzen” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #1,803. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,803
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - verwenden, ausnutzen, zum Vorteil anwenden, brauchen, gebrauchen, nutzbar machen
Corpus desk
Index DE-benutzen · benutzen · German
benutzen · rank #1,803 · 12 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,803
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Bedingungen
Nearest frequency peer: Bedingungen (-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 „benutzen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Bahnhof
Bahnhof
98,201 corpus weight
- Bedarf
Bedarf
98,200 corpus weight
- Bedingungen
Bedingungen
98,199 corpus weight
- benutzen
benutzen
98,198 corpus weight
- besuchen
besuchen
98,197 corpus weight
- Ecke
Ecke
98,195 corpus weight
What this shows „benutzen“ 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 | benutzen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [bəˈnʊt͡sn̩] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,803 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „benutzen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around benutzen (IPA [bəˈnʊt͡sn̩]), averb. Corpus frequency is #1,803 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "verwenden, ausnutzen, zum Vorteil anwenden, brauchen, gebrauchen, nutzbar machen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for benutzen, with forms such as "bbenutzen", "bennutzen", and "bentuzen". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "benutzt", "besitzen", "Benutzer", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is benutzen, spelled B-E-N-U-T-Z-E-N.
Definition
- 1verwenden, ausnutzen, zum Vorteil anwenden, brauchen, gebrauchen, nutzbar machen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how benutzen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Auf dem Laptop benutze ich das Betriebssystem eines bekannten Herstellers.
Siehst du nicht, dass er dich nur benutzt!
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbenutzen
- bennutzen
- bentuzen
- benutezn
- benuttzen
- benutzenn
- benutzne
- benutzzen
- benuzten
- beuntzen
- bneutzen
- ebnutzen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of benutzen - 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 "benutzen", 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 (12 here; floor ≥5).