bestimmend
[bəˈʃtɪmənt]
The verdict
“bestimmend” is uncommon German (frequency #51,161 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,161
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - großen Einfluss habend, sehr wichtig/entscheidend sein
Corpus desk
Index DE-bestimmend · bestimmend · German
bestimmend · rank #51,161 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,161
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH besteigt
Nearest frequency peer: besteigt (-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 „bestimmend“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- beschritten
beschritten
48,843 corpus weight
- beschwichti…
beschwichtigen
48,842 corpus weight
- besteigt
besteigt
48,841 corpus weight
- bestimmend
bestimmend
48,840 corpus weight
- betiteln
betiteln
48,839 corpus weight
- Betriebsmit…
Betriebsmittel
48,838 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „bestimmend“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bestimmend |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [bəˈʃtɪmənt] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #51,161 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „bestimmend“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
bestimmend is uncommon German at frequency #51,161 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [bəˈʃtɪmənt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "großen Einfluss habend, sehr wichtig/entscheidend sein".
Zero misspellings are on record for bestimmend in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is bestimmend, spelled B-E-S-T-I-M-M-E-N-D.
Definition
- 1großen Einfluss habend, sehr wichtig/entscheidend sein
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bestimmend appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die bestimmenden Politiker des zweiten Weltkriegs waren Roosevelt, Stalin und Churchill.
„Die von Anfang an alles bestimmenden nationalistischen Parteien hetzen die Bevölkerung seit Kriegsende weiter gegeneinander auf.“
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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