bestehlen
[bəˈʃteːlən]
The verdict
“bestehlen” is uncommon German (frequency #75,455 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,455
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - jemandem (heimlich) etwas wegnehmen
Corpus desk
Index DE-bestehlen · bestehlen · German
bestehlen · rank #75,455 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,455
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Beschriftungen
Nearest frequency peer: Beschriftungen (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „bestehlen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Berufslebens
Berufslebens
24,549 corpus weight
- beschmutzen
beschmutzen
24,548 corpus weight
- Beschriftun…
Beschriftungen
24,547 corpus weight
- bestehlen
bestehlen
24,546 corpus weight
- bestimmbar
bestimmbar
24,545 corpus weight
- bestückte
bestückte
24,544 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „bestehlen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bestehlen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [bəˈʃteːlən] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #75,455 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „bestehlen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
bestehlen is uncommon German at frequency #75,455 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [bəˈʃteːlən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "jemandem (heimlich) etwas wegnehmen".
bestehlen doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 bestehlen, spelled B-E-S-T-E-H-L-E-N.
Definition
- 1jemandem (heimlich) etwas wegnehmen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bestehlen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Meine Frau sagt, daß man mich bestohlen hat, und du wärst wohl schlau genug, um mir zu sagen, wer mich bestohlen hat und um wieviel.“
„Also ich wollte den Bäcker bezahlen, der mir immer die Brötchen an die Türklinke hängt, und suchte meinen Geldbeutel, er ist weg, ich bin bestohlen worden.“
Antonyms
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).