Besinnung
[beˈzɪnʊŋ]
The verdict
“Besinnung” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #29,503. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,503
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Zustand geistiger Präsenz
Corpus desk
Index DE-besinnung · Besinnung · German
Besinnung · rank #29,503 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,503
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH beschwerte
Nearest frequency peer: beschwerte (-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 „Besinnung“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- berufstätige
berufstätige
70,501 corpus weight
- bescheuerte
bescheuerte
70,500 corpus weight
- beschwerte
beschwerte
70,499 corpus weight
- Besinnung
Besinnung
70,498 corpus weight
- bevorsteht
bevorsteht
70,497 corpus weight
- bewohnte
bewohnte
70,496 corpus weight
What this shows „Besinnung“ 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 | Besinnung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [beˈzɪnʊŋ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #29,503 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Besinnung“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Besinnung (IPA [beˈzɪnʊŋ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,503 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 Besinnung, with forms such as "bbesinnung", "beisnnung", and "besinnnug". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "besinnen", "Bedingung", "Bedienung", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 Besinnung, spelled B-E-S-I-N-N-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1Zustand geistiger Präsenz
- 2ruhige Überlegung, ruhiges Nachdenken
- 3Handlung des Sich-Besinnens
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Besinnung appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Er kam wieder zur Besinnung.
„Er hatte die Besinnung verloren und schien in eine Art Delirium verfallen zu sein.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbesinnung
- beisnnung
- besinnnug
- besinnugn
- besinnungg
- besinnunng
- besinung
- besinunng
- besninung
- bessinnung
- bseinnung
- ebsinnung
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Besinnung - 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 "Besinnung", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).