bespitzeln
[bəˈʃpɪt͡sl̩n]
The verdict
“bespitzeln” is uncommon German (frequency #87,485 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,485
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - jemanden heimlich beobachten und belauschen, um an Informationen zu kommen
Corpus desk
Index DE-bespitzeln · bespitzeln · German
bespitzeln · rank #87,485 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,485
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH bestehendem
Nearest frequency peer: bestehendem (+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 „bespitzeln“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- beschlussfä…
beschlussfähig
12,521 corpus weight
- beschreiben…
beschreibenden
12,520 corpus weight
- beschützte
beschützte
12,518 corpus weight
- bespitzeln
bespitzeln
12,516 corpus weight
- bestehendem
bestehendem
12,515 corpus weight
- betätigten
betätigten
12,511 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „bespitzeln“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bespitzeln |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [bəˈʃpɪt͡sl̩n] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #87,485 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „bespitzeln“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
bespitzeln is uncommon German at frequency #87,485 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [bəˈʃpɪt͡sl̩n]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "jemanden heimlich beobachten und belauschen, um an Informationen zu kommen".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bespitzeln, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is bespitzeln, spelled B-E-S-P-I-T-Z-E-L-N.
Definition
- 1jemanden heimlich beobachten und belauschen, um an Informationen zu kommen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bespitzeln appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Nachbar bespitzelte den Nachbarn, Sohn den Vater, Freund den Freund. Man flüsterte in den Wohnungen, denn das laut gesprochene Wort drang durch die Wände.“
„Er wurde bespitzelt und argwöhnisch beobachtet.“
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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