besamen
[bəˈzaːmən]
The verdict
“besamen” is uncommon German (frequency #99,562 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,562
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - männliche Keimzellen (Samen) auf eine weibliche Eizelle bringen, ohne dass dazu eine körperliche Vereinigung geschieht
Corpus desk
Index DE-besamen · besamen · German
besamen · rank #99,562 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,562
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Besitzung
Nearest frequency peer: Besitzung (+2 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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „besamen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Bergregion
Bergregion
444 corpus weight
- Bering
Bering
443 corpus weight
- besamen
besamen
439 corpus weight
- Besitzung
Besitzung
437 corpus weight
- besonnenen
besonnenen
436 corpus weight
- Beter
Beter
434 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „besamen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | besamen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [bəˈzaːmən] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #99,562 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „besamen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
besamen is uncommon German at frequency #99,562 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [bəˈzaːmən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "männliche Keimzellen (Samen) auf eine weibliche Eizelle bringen, ohne dass dazu eine körperliche Vereinigung geschieht".
No misspelling variants are generated for besamen in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is besamen, spelled B-E-S-A-M-E-N.
Definition
- 1männliche Keimzellen (Samen) auf eine weibliche Eizelle bringen, ohne dass dazu eine körperliche Vereinigung geschieht
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how besamen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Im Jahr 2005 wurden 81,9% aller Rinder künstlich besamt. Das sind 4,6 Millionen weibliche Rinder, die von 26 Besamungsstationen betreut wurden.“
„Das Männchen schwimmt hinterher und besamt das Gelege, und dann wird die Brut sich selbst überlassen.“
This word in other languages
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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