bespitzelt

[bəˈʃpɪt͡sl̩t]

/[bəˈʃpɪt͡sl̩t]/ verb

The verdict

“bespitzelt” is uncommon German (frequency #76,571 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#76,571
frequency rank, German
5,818
“B” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partizip Perfekt des Verbs bespitzeln

Corpus desk

Index DE-bespitzelt · bespitzelt · German

bespitzelt · rank #76,571 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #76,571
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,818
  • PHOTO-FINISH besudelt

Nearest frequency peer: besudelt (+2 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 „bespitzelt“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „bespitzelt“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for bespitzelt
PropertyValue
Headwordbespitzelt
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[bəˈʃpɪt͡sl̩t]
Letters10
Frequency rank#76,571
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „bespitzelt“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.bespitzeltfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „besudelt“ (#76,573), „Beschattung“ (#76,568), „betankt“ (#76,574). Unter 5,818 „B“-Lemmata liegt „bespitzelt“ bei #76,571. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

bespitzelt is uncommon German at frequency #76,571 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [bəˈʃpɪt͡sl̩t]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partizip Perfekt des Verbs bespitzeln".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bespitzelt, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 bespitzelt, spelled B-E-S-P-I-T-Z-E-L-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Partizip Perfekt des Verbs bespitzeln

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bespitzelt"?
"bespitzelt" is spelled B-E-S-P-I-T-Z-E-L-T. The IPA pronunciation is [bəˈʃpɪt͡sl̩t].
What does "bespitzelt" mean?
As a verb, "bespitzelt" means: Partizip Perfekt des Verbs bespitzeln
How do you pronounce "bespitzelt"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "bespitzelt" is [bəˈʃpɪt͡sl̩t]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "bespitzelt" come from?
"bespitzelt" is a German word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bespitzelt", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list