bestätigt
[bəˈʃtɛːtɪçt]
The verdict
“bestätigt” has 14 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #1,542. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,542
- frequency rank, German
- 72,680
- “B” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Partizip Perfekt des Verbs bestätigen
Corpus desk
Index DE-bestatigt · bestätigt · German
bestätigt · rank #1,542 · 14 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,542
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 72,680
- PHOTO-FINISH Behandlung
Nearest frequency peer: Behandlung (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “bestätigt”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Auftrag
Auftrag
98,462 corpus weight
- Ausland
Ausland
98,461 corpus weight
- Behandlung
Behandlung
98,460 corpus weight
- bestätigt
bestätigt
98,459 corpus weight
- böse
böse
98,458 corpus weight
- diesmal
diesmal
98,457 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “bestätigt” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | bestätigt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [bəˈʃtɛːtɪçt] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #1,542 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bestätigt” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around bestätigt (IPA [bəˈʃtɛːtɪçt]), averb. Corpus frequency is #1,542 among 72,680 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Partizip Perfekt des Verbs bestätigen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for bestätigt, with forms such as "bbestätigt", "besstätigt", and "besttäigt". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "betätigt", "bestattet", "betätigte", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is bestätigt, spelled B-E-S-T-Ä-T-I-G-T.
Definition
- 1Partizip Perfekt des Verbs bestätigen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbestätigt
- besstätigt
- besttäigt
- besttätigt
- bestäitgt
- bestätgit
- bestätiggt
- bestätigtt
- bestätitg
- bestättigt
- besättigt
- betsätigt
- bsetätigt
- ebstätigt
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bestätigt - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bestätigt", 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).
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.