besprühen
[bəˈʃpʁyːən]
The verdict
“besprühen” is an uncommon German word, ranked #60,411 in German word frequency and used as a verb.
- #60,411
- frequency rank, German
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - feinste, mit Luft oder Gas vermischte Partikel mithilfe eines Gerätes (zum Beispiel einer Sprühflasche, eines Sprays) auf einen Untergrund aufbringen; Gift als Pflanzenschutz aufbringen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | besprühen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [bəˈʃpʁyːən] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #60,411 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “besprühen” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for besprühen is 9 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [bəˈʃpʁyːən]. Corpus data places it at rank #60,411 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "feinste, mit Luft oder Gas vermischte Partikel mithilfe eines Gerätes (zum Beispiel einer Sprühflasche, eines Sprays) auf einen Untergrund aufbringen; Gift als Pflanzenschutz aufbringen".
No misspelling variants are generated for besprühen in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is besprühen, spelled B-E-S-P-R-Ü-H-E-N.
Definition
- 1feinste, mit Luft oder Gas vermischte Partikel mithilfe eines Gerätes (zum Beispiel einer Sprühflasche, eines Sprays) auf einen Untergrund aufbringen; Gift als Pflanzenschutz aufbringen
This word in other languages
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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Using “besprühen”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is B-E-S-P-R-Ü-H-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.