beschießen
Letters
10 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
beschießen is aGermanverb. It means: mit einer Waffe (Schusswaffe) auf jemanden feuern (schießen) Pronounced [bəˈʃiːsn̩].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | beschießen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [bəˈʃiːsn̩] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for beschießen is 10 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [bəˈʃiːsn̩]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for beschießen 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 beschießen, spelled B-E-S-C-H-I-E-S-S-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1mit einer Waffe (Schusswaffe) auf jemanden feuern (schießen)
- 2etwas, zum Beispiel Elektronen, mit hoher Geschwindigkeit abfeuern und gegen etwas anderes lenken, wo sie dann aufprallen und eine Reaktion auslösen
- 3in schneller Folge Argumente oder auch Vorwürfen äußern
- 4zum Prüfen von Waffe oder Patrone mit einer Schusswaffe kontrolliert feuern
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