bepinseln
[bəˈpɪnzl̩n]
The verdict
“bepinseln” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - etwas mit einer flüssigen oder zähen Masse bestreichen, wozu ein besonderes Gerät mit Haaren/Borsten (Pinsel) verwendet wird
Corpus desk
Index DE-bepinseln · bepinseln · German
bepinseln · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bepinseln |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [bəˈpɪnzl̩n] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „bepinseln“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
bepinseln is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [bəˈpɪnzl̩n]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bepinseln, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 bepinseln, spelled B-E-P-I-N-S-E-L-N.
Definition
- 1etwas mit einer flüssigen oder zähen Masse bestreichen, wozu ein besonderes Gerät mit Haaren/Borsten (Pinsel) verwendet wird
- 2ein auffälliges Gesichts-Make-up auflegen
- 3skizzenhaft beschreiben
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bepinseln appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Während Beno die Holzwände weiß lasierte, bepinselte ich die einzige tapezierte Wand in einem warmen Sonnengelb.“
Vergessen Sie nicht, den Hefekranz mit Ei zu bepinseln, ehe er in den Ofen kommt.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.