bestanden
[bəˈʃtandn̩]
The verdict
“bestanden” has 14 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #4,103. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,103
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pflanzen als Bewuchs aufweisend
Corpus desk
Index DE-bestanden · bestanden · German
bestanden · rank #4,103 · 14 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,103
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH besonderer
Nearest frequency peer: besonderer (-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 „bestanden“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- befreit
befreit
95,901 corpus weight
- belegen
belegen
95,900 corpus weight
- besonderer
besonderer
95,899 corpus weight
- bestanden
bestanden
95,898 corpus weight
- bestens
bestens
95,897 corpus weight
- Briefe
Briefe
95,896 corpus weight
What this shows „bestanden“ 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 | bestanden |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [bəˈʃtandn̩] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #4,103 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „bestanden“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around bestanden (IPA [bəˈʃtandn̩]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #4,103 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for bestanden, with forms such as "bbestanden", "besatnden", and "besstanden". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "bestünde", "beständig", "bestaunen", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 bestanden, spelled B-E-S-T-A-N-D-E-N.
Definition
- 1Pflanzen als Bewuchs aufweisend
- 2in einem fortgeschrittenen Alter befindlich
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bestanden appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Drei Kaffeehäuser im Stil des 18. Jahrhunderts bekrönen den von Pinien, Eichen und Zypressen bestandenen [Büyük-Çamlıca-]Park [in Istanbul].“
„Zentral im heute dicht von Bäumen bestandenen Park [Johannishain] steht der 1896 errichtete Quedlinburger Bismarckturm.“
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbestanden
- besatnden
- besstanden
- bestadnen
- bestandden
- bestandenn
- bestandne
- bestanedn
- bestannden
- bestnaden
- besttanden
- betsanden
- bsetanden
- ebstanden
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bestanden - 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 "bestanden", 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 (14 here; floor ≥5).