besten
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#375
in German word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
besten is anGermanadj. It means: Genitiv Singular Maskulinum der starken Flexion des Superlativs des Adjektivs gut Pronounced [ˈbɛstn̩]. It ranks #375 in German word frequency. Often confused with bösen and Beute.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | besten |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ˈbɛstn̩] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #375 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for besten is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbɛstn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #375 in overall German word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 20 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for besten, with forms such as "bbesten", "besetn", and "bessten". 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, "bösen", "Beute", "beten", 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 besten, spelled B-E-S-T-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Genitiv Singular Maskulinum der starken Flexion des Superlativs des Adjektivs gut
- 2Akkusativ Singular Maskulinum der starken Flexion des Superlativs des Adjektivs gut
- 3Genitiv Singular Neutrum der starken Flexion des Superlativs des Adjektivs gut
- 4Dativ Plural der starken Flexion des Superlativs des Adjektivs gut
- 5Genitiv Singular Maskulinum der schwachen Flexion des Superlativs des Adjektivs gut
- 6Dativ Singular Maskulinum der schwachen Flexion des Superlativs des Adjektivs gut
- 7Akkusativ Singular Maskulinum der schwachen Flexion des Superlativs des Adjektivs gut
- 8Genitiv Singular Femininum der schwachen Flexion des Superlativs des Adjektivs gut
- 9Dativ Singular Femininum der schwachen Flexion des Superlativs des Adjektivs gut
- 10Genitiv Singular Neutrum der schwachen Flexion des Superlativs des Adjektivs gut
- 11Dativ Singular Neutrum der schwachen Flexion des Superlativs des Adjektivs gut
- 12Plural der schwachen Flexion des Superlativs des Adjektivs gut
- 13Genitiv Singular Maskulinum der gemischten Flexion des Superlativs des Adjektivs gut
- 14Dativ Singular Maskulinum der gemischten Flexion des Superlativs des Adjektivs gut
- 15Akkusativ Singular Maskulinum der gemischten Flexion des Superlativs des Adjektivs gut
- 16Genitiv Singular Femininum der gemischten Flexion des Superlativs des Adjektivs gut
- 17Dativ Singular Femininum der gemischten Flexion des Superlativs des Adjektivs gut
- 18Genitiv Singular Neutrum der gemischten Flexion des Superlativs des Adjektivs gut
- 19Dativ Singular Neutrum der gemischten Flexion des Superlativs des Adjektivs gut
- 20Plural der gemischten Flexion des Superlativs des Adjektivs gut
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbesten,besetn,bessten,bestenn,bestne,bestten,betsen,bseten,ebsten
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for besten
Misspelling Variants of "besten"
Frequency rank: #375 in German
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