beschmutzen
[bəˈʃmʊt͡sn̩]
The verdict
“beschmutzen” is uncommon German (frequency #75,453 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,453
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - schmutzig machen, dreckig machen, mit Schmutz versehen
Corpus desk
Index DE-beschmutzen · beschmutzen · German
beschmutzen · rank #75,453 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,453
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Berufslebens
Nearest frequency peer: Berufslebens (-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 „beschmutzen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Berufsanfän…
Berufsanfänger
24,550 corpus weight
- Berufslebens
Berufslebens
24,549 corpus weight
- beschmutzen
beschmutzen
24,548 corpus weight
- Beschriftun…
Beschriftungen
24,547 corpus weight
- bestehlen
bestehlen
24,546 corpus weight
- bestimmbar
bestimmbar
24,545 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „beschmutzen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | beschmutzen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [bəˈʃmʊt͡sn̩] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #75,453 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „beschmutzen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
beschmutzen is uncommon German at frequency #75,453 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [bəˈʃmʊt͡sn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for beschmutzen in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 beschmutzen, spelled B-E-S-C-H-M-U-T-Z-E-N.
Definition
- 1schmutzig machen, dreckig machen, mit Schmutz versehen
- 2den Ruf oder die Ehre schmälern, herabsetzen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how beschmutzen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mit seinen dreckigen Schuhen hat er alle Böden beschmutzt.
Durch seine Verbrechen wurde der Ruf seiner Familie beschmutzt.
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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