besänftigt
[bəˈzɛnftɪçt]
The verdict
“besänftigt” is uncommon German (frequency #67,043 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,043
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partizip Perfekt des Verbs besänftigen
Corpus desk
Index DE-besanftigt · besänftigt · German
besänftigt · rank #67,043 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,043
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH beschenkten
Nearest frequency peer: beschenkten (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „besänftigt“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- berufenen
berufenen
32,960 corpus weight
- beschenkten
beschenkten
32,959 corpus weight
- besänftigt
besänftigt
32,958 corpus weight
- betraute
betraute
32,957 corpus weight
- Betzdorf
Betzdorf
32,955 corpus weight
- bewuchs
bewuchs
32,954 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „besänftigt“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | besänftigt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [bəˈzɛnftɪçt] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #67,043 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „besänftigt“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
besänftigt is uncommon German at frequency #67,043 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [bəˈzɛnftɪçt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partizip Perfekt des Verbs besänftigen".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for besänftigt, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is besänftigt, spelled B-E-S-Ä-N-F-T-I-G-T.
Definition
- 1Partizip Perfekt des Verbs besänftigen
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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