Beschuss
[bəˈʃʊs]
The verdict
“Beschuss” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #16,933. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,933
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vorgang des Schießens (über längere Zeit hindurch) auf jemanden oder etwas
Corpus desk
Index DE-beschuss · Beschuss · German
Beschuss · rank #16,933 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,933
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Beschuldigten
Nearest frequency peer: Beschuldigten (-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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „Beschuss“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- bereitstell…
bereitstellen
83,071 corpus weight
- bergauf
bergauf
83,070 corpus weight
- Beschuldigt…
Beschuldigten
83,069 corpus weight
- Beschuss
Beschuss
83,068 corpus weight
- besichtigt
besichtigt
83,067 corpus weight
- beunruhigt
beunruhigt
83,066 corpus weight
What this shows „Beschuss“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Beschuss |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [bəˈʃʊs] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #16,933 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Beschuss“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Beschuss (IPA [bəˈʃʊs]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,933 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Beschuss, with forms such as "bbeschuss", "becshuss", and "bescchuss". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Beschluss", "beschloss", "Beschlüsse", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Beschuss, spelled B-E-S-C-H-U-S-S.
Definition
- 1Vorgang des Schießens (über längere Zeit hindurch) auf jemanden oder etwas
- 2Vorgang, bei dem man Elementarteilchen auf etwas aufprallen lässt
- 3das Prüfen von Handfeuerwaffen durch das Abgeben von Schüssen mit verstärkter Ladung
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Beschuss appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Bei einer eventuellen Offensive gegen Gaza mit dem Ziel, den Beschuss mit Raketen zu stoppen, gibt es keinerlei moralisches Gebot, das die wahllose Tötung von Zivilisten untersagt.“
„Fast alle, die ich darauf ansprach, haben die ganze Nacht zum 8. August auf ihren Fernseher gestarrt, wo ein russischer Sender live den Beschuss der südossetischen Hauptstadt Zchinwali durch die georgische Armee zeigte.“
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbeschuss
- becshuss
- bescchuss
- beschhuss
- beschsus
- beschus
- beschuß
- bescuhss
- beshcuss
- besschuss
- bsechuss
- ebschuss
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Beschuss - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Beschuss", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).