beseelen
[bəˈzeːlən]
The verdict
“beseelen” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ein (positives) Gefühl mit Ausstrahlung (Seele) in etwas legen
Corpus desk
Index DE-beseelen · beseelen · German
beseelen · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | beseelen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [bəˈzeːlən] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „beseelen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
beseelen is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [bəˈzeːlən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for beseelen, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 beseelen, spelled B-E-S-E-E-L-E-N.
Definition
- 1ein (positives) Gefühl mit Ausstrahlung (Seele) in etwas legen
- 2mit (positiven) Gefühlen, einer Idee, einem Glücksgefühl erfüllen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how beseelen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Ob es sich um Anspielungen und flüchtige Erwähnungen handelt oder das ganze biblische Geschehen in Erinnerung gerufen und literarisch neu beseelt wird, es gibt mehrere Gründe, warum Sacher-Masoch an der alttestamentlichen Befreiungs- und Mordgeschichte nachhaltig festhielt.“
„Noch beseelt von dieser gelungenen Aktion hielt Alessandro weiter den Blick auf den Monitor gerichtet.“
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.