besteht

/[bəˈʃteːt]/ verb

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#529

in German word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

besteht is aGermanverb. It means: 3. Person Singular Präsens Indikativ des Verbs bestehen Pronounced [bəˈʃteːt]. It ranks #529 in German word frequency. Often confused with betet and besten.

Key facts for besteht
PropertyValue
Headwordbesteht
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[bəˈʃteːt]
Letters7
Frequency rank#529
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of besteht in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for besteht is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [bəˈʃteːt]. Corpus data places it at rank #529 in overall German word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "3. Person Singular Präsens Indikativ des Verbs bestehen".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for besteht, with forms such as "bbesteht", "besetht", and "bessteht". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "betet", "besten", "bester", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is besteht, spelled B-E-S-T-E-H-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    3. Person Singular Präsens Indikativ des Verbs bestehen

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: bbesteht,besetht,bessteht,bestehht,bestehtt,besteth,besthet,bestteht,betseht,bseteht,ebsteht

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for besteht

Misspelling Variants of "besteht"

bbesteht8besetht7bessteht8bestehht8bestehtt8besteth7besthet7bestteht8
Misspelling Variants of "besteht"

Frequency rank: #529 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "besteht"?
"besteht" is spelled B-E-S-T-E-H-T. The IPA pronunciation is [bəˈʃteːt].
What does "besteht" mean?
As a verb, "besteht" means: 3. Person Singular Präsens Indikativ des Verbs bestehen
What words are commonly confused with "besteht"?
"besteht" is commonly confused with "betet", "besten", "bester". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "besteht"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "besteht" is [bəˈʃteːt]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "besteht" come from?
"besteht" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby German words

Other entries that begin with the letter B in our German index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.