bereits
[bəˈʁaɪ̯t͡s]
The verdict
“bereits” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #196. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #196
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - einen relativ frühen Zeitpunkt betreffend, früher als erwartet
Corpus desk
Index DE-bereits · bereits · German
bereits · rank #196 · 9 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #196
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH während
Nearest frequency peer: während (-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 „bereits“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- sagen
sagen
99,808 corpus weight
- steht
steht
99,807 corpus weight
- während
während
99,806 corpus weight
- bereits
bereits
99,805 corpus weight
- Deutschen
Deutschen
99,804 corpus weight
- Ende
Ende
99,803 corpus weight
What this shows „bereits“ 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 | bereits |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | [bəˈʁaɪ̯t͡s] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #196 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „bereits“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around bereits (IPA [bəˈʁaɪ̯t͡s]), anadverb. Corpus frequency is #196 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for bereits, with forms such as "bbereits", "beerits", and "bereitss". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, 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, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is bereits, spelled B-E-R-E-I-T-S.
Definition
- 1einen relativ frühen Zeitpunkt betreffend, früher als erwartet
- 2einen relativ späten Zeitpunkt betreffend, mehr als erwartet
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bereits appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Bereits im vorigen Herbst hatte Nordrhein-Westfalen eine Bundesratsinitiative verfasst.“
„Vierhundert Jahre vor Lilienthal träumte bereits ein anderes Genie davon, sich mit einem Fluggerät durch die Luft zu bewegen.“
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbereits
- beerits
- bereitss
- bereitts
- beretis
- beriets
- berreits
- breeits
- ebreits
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bereits - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "bereits", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).