bestimmst
[bəˈʃtɪmst]
The verdict
“bestimmst” is uncommon German (frequency #61,351 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,351
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs bestimmen
Corpus desk
Index DE-bestimmst · bestimmst · German
bestimmst · rank #61,351 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,351
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH bestickt
Nearest frequency peer: bestickt (-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 „bestimmst“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- beseitigte
beseitigte
38,652 corpus weight
- bestickt
bestickt
38,651 corpus weight
- bestimmst
bestimmst
38,650 corpus weight
- Betreiberin
Betreiberin
38,649 corpus weight
- betriebsber…
betriebsbereit
38,648 corpus weight
- Bettel
Bettel
38,647 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „bestimmst“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bestimmst |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [bəˈʃtɪmst] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #61,351 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „bestimmst“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
bestimmst is uncommon German at frequency #61,351 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [bəˈʃtɪmst]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "2. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs bestimmen".
No misspelling variants are generated for bestimmst in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is bestimmst, spelled B-E-S-T-I-M-M-S-T.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs bestimmen
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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