Bestätigung
[bəˈʃtɛːtɪɡʊŋ]
The verdict
“Bestätigung” has 17 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #5,150. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,150
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Information über die Richtigkeit
Corpus desk
Index DE-bestatigung · Bestätigung · German
Bestätigung · rank #5,150 · 17 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,150
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH benötigen
Nearest frequency peer: benötigen (-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 „Bestätigung“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Beinen
Beinen
94,854 corpus weight
- beleidigt
beleidigt
94,853 corpus weight
- benötigen
benötigen
94,852 corpus weight
- Bestätigung
Bestätigung
94,851 corpus weight
- Beute
Beute
94,850 corpus weight
- binnen
binnen
94,849 corpus weight
What this shows „Bestätigung“ 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 | Bestätigung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [bəˈʃtɛːtɪɡʊŋ] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #5,150 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Bestätigung“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around Bestätigung (IPA [bəˈʃtɛːtɪɡʊŋ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,150 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for Bestätigung, with forms such as "bbestätigung", "besstätigung", and "besttäigung". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Betätigung", "Bestattung", "bestätigen", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Bestätigung, spelled B-E-S-T-Ä-T-I-G-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1Information über die Richtigkeit
- 2Unterstützung für jemand
- 3amtliches Papier oder amtliche Verlautbarung über etwas
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Bestätigung appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Journalisten konnten für diese Neuigkeit noch keine Bestätigung erhalten.
„Und sie erhielt die Bestätigung dafür.“
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbestätigung
- besstätigung
- besttäigung
- besttätigung
- bestäitgung
- bestätgiung
- bestätiggung
- bestätignug
- bestätigugn
- bestätigungg
- bestätigunng
- bestätiugng
- bestättigung
- besättigung
- betsätigung
- bsetätigung
- ebstätigung
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Bestätigung - 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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Bestätigung", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).