berüchtigt
[bəˈʁʏçtɪçt]
The verdict
“berüchtigt” has 16 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #35,100. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,100
- frequency rank, German
- 72,680
- “B” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - übel beleumdet, für schlechte Eigenschaften oder Taten bekannt
Corpus desk
Index DE-beruchtigt · berüchtigt · German
berüchtigt · rank #35,100 · 16 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,100
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 72,680
- PHOTO-FINISH beruhigte
Nearest frequency peer: beruhigte (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “berüchtigt”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- bereist
bereist
64,904 corpus weight
- Bernhardt
Bernhardt
64,903 corpus weight
- beruhigte
beruhigte
64,902 corpus weight
- berüchtigt
berüchtigt
64,901 corpus weight
- bescheidener
bescheidener
64,900 corpus weight
- Beschlüssen
Beschlüssen
64,899 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “berüchtigt” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | berüchtigt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [bəˈʁʏçtɪçt] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #35,100 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “berüchtigt” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around berüchtigt (IPA [bəˈʁʏçtɪçt]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #35,100 among 72,680 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "übel beleumdet, für schlechte Eigenschaften oder Taten bekannt".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for berüchtigt, with forms such as "bberüchtigt", "bercühtigt", and "berrüchtigt". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "beruhigt", "besichtigt", "bezichtigt", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is berüchtigt, spelled B-E-R-Ü-C-H-T-I-G-T.
Definition
- 1übel beleumdet, für schlechte Eigenschaften oder Taten bekannt
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bberüchtigt
- bercühtigt
- berrüchtigt
- berücchtigt
- berüchhtigt
- berüchitgt
- berüchtgit
- berüchtiggt
- berüchtigtt
- berüchtitg
- berüchttigt
- berücthigt
- berühctigt
- beürchtigt
- breüchtigt
- ebrüchtigt
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of berüchtigt - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "berüchtigt", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.