bestätige
[bəˈʃtɛːtɪɡə]
The verdict
“bestätige” has 13 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #30,955. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,955
- frequency rank, German
- 72,680
- “B” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs bestätigen
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 | bestätige |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [bəˈʃtɛːtɪɡə] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #30,955 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bestätige” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around bestätige (IPA [bəˈʃtɛːtɪɡə]), averb. Corpus frequency is #30,955 among 72,680 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for bestätige, with forms such as "bbestätige", "besstätige", and "besttäige". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "betätigt", "bestätigt", "betätigen", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is bestätige, spelled B-E-S-T-Ä-T-I-G-E.
Definition
- 11. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs bestätigen
- 21. Person Singular Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv des Verbs bestätigen
- 33. Person Singular Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv des Verbs bestätigen
- 42. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs bestätigen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbestätige,besstätige,besttäige,besttätige,bestäitge,bestätgie,bestätieg,bestätigge,bestättige,besättige,betsätige,bsetätige,ebstätige
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bestätige - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 “bestätige”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is B-E-S-T-Ä-T-I-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [bəˈʃtɛːtɪɡə] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “betätigt” - see the side-by-side comparison. bestätige vs betätigt
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Same frequency band
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.