Besteck
[bəˈʃtɛk]
The verdict
“Besteck” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #24,642. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,642
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Werkzeug für kultiviertes Essen, kurz für Essbesteck
Corpus desk
Index DE-besteck · Besteck · German
Besteck · rank #24,642 · 11 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,642
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH bescheinigt
Nearest frequency peer: bescheinigt (-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 „Besteck“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- benachricht…
benachrichtigt
75,362 corpus weight
- Berufswahl
Berufswahl
75,361 corpus weight
- bescheinigt
bescheinigt
75,360 corpus weight
- Besteck
Besteck
75,359 corpus weight
- Betriebswir…
Betriebswirtschaftslehre
75,357 corpus weight
- bette
bette
75,356 corpus weight
What this shows „Besteck“ 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 | Besteck |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [bəˈʃtɛk] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #24,642 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Besteck“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Besteck (IPA [bəˈʃtɛk]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,642 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Besteck, with forms such as "bbesteck", "besetck", and "bessteck". 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, "besten", "bester", "bestes", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Besteck, spelled B-E-S-T-E-C-K.
Definition
- 1Werkzeug für kultiviertes Essen, kurz für Essbesteck
- 2Werkzeug für Operationen und Präparationen
- 3Werkzeug zur Orientierung und Navigation
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Besteck appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mit sauberem Besteck schmeckt es besser.
„James B. Donovan legte sein Besteck fort.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbesteck
- besetck
- bessteck
- bestcek
- bestecck
- besteckk
- bestekc
- bestteck
- betseck
- bseteck
- ebsteck
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Besteck - 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 "Besteck", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).