beschatten
[bəˈʃatn̩]
The verdict
“beschatten” is uncommon German (frequency #80,144 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,144
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - jemandem/etwas einen Schatten verleihen
Corpus desk
Index DE-beschatten · beschatten · German
beschatten · rank #80,144 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,144
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH bescherten
Nearest frequency peer: bescherten (+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 „beschatten“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- berechnend
berechnend
19,862 corpus weight
- beschatten
beschatten
19,857 corpus weight
- bescherten
bescherten
19,856 corpus weight
- besorgniser…
besorgniserregende
19,854 corpus weight
- Besorgung
Besorgung
19,853 corpus weight
- Bespitzelung
Bespitzelung
19,852 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „beschatten“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | beschatten |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [bəˈʃatn̩] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #80,144 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „beschatten“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
beschatten is uncommon German at frequency #80,144 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [bəˈʃatn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for beschatten in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is beschatten, spelled B-E-S-C-H-A-T-T-E-N.
Definition
- 1jemandem/etwas einen Schatten verleihen
- 2jemanden heimlich überwachen; jemanden im Geheimen beobachten
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how beschatten appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der Baum beschattet die Wiese, so dass sich die Pflanzen, die keine direkte Sonne vertragen, dort ausbreiten konnten.
„Durch das Gittertor blickte man auf ein hübsches Blumenbeet und eine ausgedehnte Rasenfläche, die von einer großen, immergrünen Eiche beschattet wurde.“
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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