bereits
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#196
in German word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
16
similar word pairs
bereits is anGermanadv. It means: einen relativ frühen Zeitpunkt betreffend, früher als erwartet Pronounced [bəˈʁaɪ̯t͡s]. It ranks #196 in German word frequency. Often confused with breit and Breite.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bereits |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adv |
| IPA | [bəˈʁaɪ̯t͡s] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #196 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for bereits is 7 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [bəˈʁaɪ̯t͡s]. Corpus data places it at rank #196 in overall German word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for bereits, with forms such as "bbereits", "beerits", and "bereitss". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "breit", "Breite", "Beweis", 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 bereits, spelled B-E-R-E-I-T-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1einen relativ frühen Zeitpunkt betreffend, früher als erwartet
- 2einen relativ späten Zeitpunkt betreffend, mehr als erwartet
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbereits,beerits,bereitss,bereitts,beretis,beriets,berreits,breeits,ebreits
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bereits
Misspelling Variants of "bereits"
Frequency rank: #196 in German
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