Besessenheit
Letters
12 characters
Frequency Rank
#43,763
in German word usage
Misspellings
17
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
Besessenheit is aGermannoun. It means: (stark) ausgeprägter Erregungszustand, der als „Inbesitznahme“ der betroffenen Person durch eine übernatürliche Kraft gedeutet wird, die in der Regel in der christlichen Theologie auf das Eindringe... Pronounced [bəˈzɛsn̩haɪ̯t].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Besessenheit |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [bəˈzɛsn̩haɪ̯t] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #43,763 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Besessenheit is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [bəˈzɛsn̩haɪ̯t]. Corpus data places it at rank #43,763 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 17 documented wrong-spelling variants for Besessenheit, with forms such as "bbesessenheit", "beesssenheit", and "besesenheit". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.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 Besessenheit, spelled B-E-S-E-S-S-E-N-H-E-I-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(stark) ausgeprägter Erregungszustand, der als „Inbesitznahme“ der betroffenen Person durch eine übernatürliche Kraft gedeutet wird, die in der Regel in der christlichen Theologie auf das Eindringen eines Dämons, eines Geistes oder einer Gottheit zurückgeführt wird
- 2Begeisterung für etwas/Eingenommensein von etwas in einem Maße, dass man sich um es unaufhörlich mit großer Leidenschaft bemüht
- 3unangenehmes bis quälendes Gefühl, der eigenen Person als zugehörig erlebte Zwangsvorstellung oder -handlung
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbesessenheit,beesssenheit,besesenheit,besesesnheit,besessehneit,besessenehit,besessenheitt,besessenheti,besessenhheit,besessenhiet,besessennheit,besessneheit,beseßenheit,bessesenheit,bessessenheit,bseessenheit,ebsessenheit
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Besessenheit
Misspelling Variants of "Besessenheit"
Frequency rank: #43,763 in German
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Nearby German words
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