bespielen
[bəˈʃpiːlən]
The verdict
“bespielen” is uncommon German (frequency #55,994 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,994
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - als Untergrund für eine sportliche Veranstaltung (Spiel) nutzen
Corpus desk
Index DE-bespielen · bespielen · German
bespielen · rank #55,994 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,994
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Besiedelung
Nearest frequency peer: Besiedelung (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „bespielen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Berührungsä…
Berührungsängste
44,010 corpus weight
- besiedelte
besiedelte
44,009 corpus weight
- Besiedelung
Besiedelung
44,008 corpus weight
- bespielen
bespielen
44,007 corpus weight
- beteuerte
beteuerte
44,005 corpus weight
- Betreffe
Betreffe
44,004 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „bespielen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bespielen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [bəˈʃpiːlən] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #55,994 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „bespielen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
bespielen is uncommon German at frequency #55,994 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [bəˈʃpiːlən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
bespielen has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 bespielen, spelled B-E-S-P-I-E-L-E-N.
Definition
- 1als Untergrund für eine sportliche Veranstaltung (Spiel) nutzen
- 2auf einem Datenträger Musik/Film/Daten speichern
- 3jemanden mit Beschäftigung (Spielen) bei Laune halten
- 4an einer Bühne eine Aufführung (Theaterspiel) geben
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bespielen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der Platz ist nach dem Regen nicht zu bespielen.
Auf dem Schrank stapelten sich bespielte Videokasetten.
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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