besiegt
[bəˈziːkt]
The verdict
“besiegt” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #6,770. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,770
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sportlich beziehungsweise militärisch bezwungen, eine Niederlage einsteckend
Corpus desk
Index DE-besiegt · besiegt · German
besiegt · rank #6,770 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,770
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH beschweren
Nearest frequency peer: beschweren (-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 „besiegt“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Bekämpfung
Bekämpfung
93,234 corpus weight
- Belege
Belege
93,233 corpus weight
- beschweren
beschweren
93,232 corpus weight
- besiegt
besiegt
93,231 corpus weight
- besprechen
besprechen
93,230 corpus weight
- binden
binden
93,229 corpus weight
What this shows „besiegt“ 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 | besiegt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [bəˈziːkt] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #6,770 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „besiegt“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around besiegt (IPA [bəˈziːkt]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #6,770 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "sportlich beziehungsweise militärisch bezwungen, eine Niederlage einsteckend".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for besiegt, with forms such as "bbesiegt", "beisegt", and "beseigt". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "biegt", "bewegt", "besteht", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is besiegt, spelled B-E-S-I-E-G-T.
Definition
- 1sportlich beziehungsweise militärisch bezwungen, eine Niederlage einsteckend
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how besiegt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Angesichts der begrenzten industriellen Kapazitäten des Deutschen Reiches […] war es naheliegend, auch Waffen und Ausrüstung besiegter Armeen als Kriegsbeute in den eigenen Streitkräften zu verwenden.“
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbesiegt
- beisegt
- beseigt
- besieggt
- besiegtt
- besietg
- besiget
- bessiegt
- bseiegt
- ebsiegt
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of besiegt - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "besiegt", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).