bestens
[ˈbɛstn̩s]
The verdict
“bestens” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #4,104. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,104
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - auf das Beste, sehr gut, ausgezeichnet, hervorragend
Corpus desk
Index DE-bestens · bestens · German
bestens · rank #4,104 · 11 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,104
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH bestanden
Nearest frequency peer: bestanden (-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 „bestens“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- belegen
belegen
95,900 corpus weight
- besonderer
besonderer
95,899 corpus weight
- bestanden
bestanden
95,898 corpus weight
- bestens
bestens
95,897 corpus weight
- Briefe
Briefe
95,896 corpus weight
- Ch
Ch
95,895 corpus weight
What this shows „bestens“ 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 | bestens |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | [ˈbɛstn̩s] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #4,104 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „bestens“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around bestens (IPA [ˈbɛstn̩s]), anadverb. Corpus frequency is #4,104 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for bestens, with forms such as "bbestens", "besetns", and "besstens". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "beten", "bester", "bestes", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is bestens, spelled B-E-S-T-E-N-S.
Definition
- 1auf das Beste, sehr gut, ausgezeichnet, hervorragend
- 2vielmals, sehr herzlich, herzlichst
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bestens appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hans-Günter fühlt sich wieder bestens.
Seid bestens gegrüßt - Euer Töchterchen Gabi!
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbestens
- besetns
- besstens
- bestenns
- bestenss
- bestesn
- bestnes
- besttens
- betsens
- bsetens
- ebstens
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bestens - 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 "bestens", 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).