beschämen

[bəˈʃɛːmən]

/[bəˈʃɛːmən]/ verb

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The verdict

“beschämen” is uncommon German (frequency #85,014 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#85,014
frequency rank, German
5,818
“B” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Scham in jemandem hervorrufen

Corpus desk

Index DE-beschamen · beschämen · German

beschämen · rank #85,014 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #85,014
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,818
  • PHOTO-FINISH beschworene

Nearest frequency peer: beschworene (-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 „beschämen“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „beschämen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for beschämen
PropertyValue
Headwordbeschämen
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[bəˈʃɛːmən]
Letters9
Frequency rank#85,014
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „beschämen“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.beschämenfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Ticks laufen logarithmisch; jeder ist rund zehnmal seltener. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „beschworene“ (#85,013), „besonnene“ (#85,015), „beschmieren“ (#85,012). Unter 5,818 „B“-Lemmata liegt „beschämen“ bei #85,014. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

beschämen is uncommon German at frequency #85,014 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [bəˈʃɛːmən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Scham in jemandem hervorrufen".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for beschämen, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is beschämen, spelled B-E-S-C-H-Ä-M-E-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Scham in jemandem hervorrufen

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how beschämen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Der Lehrer beschämte den Schüler, indem er alle Fehler aus dem Diktat vor der ganzen Klasse laut vorlas.

Synonyms

demütigen

This word in other languages

humiliate(English)

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.

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?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "beschämen", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

besonnene#85,015bestiehlt#85,016bestreikt#85,017Biometrie#85,026

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list