beschämen

/[bəˈʃɛːmən]/ verb

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#85,014

in German word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

beschämen is aGermanverb. It means: Scham in jemandem hervorrufen Pronounced [bəˈʃɛːmən].

Key facts for beschämen
PropertyValue
Headwordbeschämen
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[bəˈʃɛːmən]
Letters9
Frequency rank#85,014
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of beschämen in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for beschämen is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [bəˈʃɛːmən]. Corpus data places it at rank #85,014 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Scham in jemandem hervorrufen".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for beschämen in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 beschämen, spelled B-E-S-C-H-Ä-M-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Scham in jemandem hervorrufen

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #85,014 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "beschämen"?
"beschämen" is spelled B-E-S-C-H-Ä-M-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is [bəˈʃɛːmən].
What does "beschämen" mean?
As a verb, "beschämen" means: Scham in jemandem hervorrufen
How do you pronounce "beschämen"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "beschämen" is [bəˈʃɛːmən]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "beschämen" come from?
"beschämen" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.