bestimmte
[bəˈʃtɪmtə]
The verdict
“bestimmte” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #1,502. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,502
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nominativ Singular Femininum Positiv der starken Flexion des Adjektivs bestimmt
Corpus desk
Index DE-bestimmte · bestimmte · German
bestimmte · rank #1,502 · 12 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,502
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH allgemein
Nearest frequency peer: allgemein (-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 „bestimmte“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- zählt
zählt
98,502 corpus weight
- Album
Album
98,501 corpus weight
- allgemein
allgemein
98,500 corpus weight
- bestimmte
bestimmte
98,499 corpus weight
- bestimmten
bestimmten
98,498 corpus weight
- Bundesliga
Bundesliga
98,497 corpus weight
What this shows „bestimmte“ 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 | bestimmte |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [bəˈʃtɪmtə] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #1,502 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „bestimmte“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around bestimmte (IPA [bəˈʃtɪmtə]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #1,502 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 11 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for bestimmte, with forms such as "bbestimmte", "besitmmte", and "besstimmte". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "bestimmten", "bestimmter", "bestimmtes", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is bestimmte, spelled B-E-S-T-I-M-M-T-E.
Definition
- 1Nominativ Singular Femininum Positiv der starken Flexion des Adjektivs bestimmt
- 2Akkusativ Singular Femininum Positiv der starken Flexion des Adjektivs bestimmt
- 3Nominativ Plural Positiv der starken Flexion des Adjektivs bestimmt
- 4Akkusativ Plural Positiv der starken Flexion des Adjektivs bestimmt
- 5Nominativ Singular Maskulinum Positiv der schwachen Flexion des Adjektivs bestimmt
- 6Nominativ Singular Femininum Positiv der schwachen Flexion des Adjektivs bestimmt
- 7Akkusativ Singular Femininum Positiv der schwachen Flexion des Adjektivs bestimmt
- 8Nominativ Singular Neutrum Positiv der schwachen Flexion des Adjektivs bestimmt
- 9Akkusativ Singular Neutrum Positiv der schwachen Flexion des Adjektivs bestimmt
- 10Nominativ Singular Femininum Positiv der gemischten Flexion des Adjektivs bestimmt
- 11Akkusativ Singular Femininum Positiv der gemischten Flexion des Adjektivs bestimmt
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbestimmte
- besitmmte
- besstimmte
- bestimmet
- bestimmtte
- bestimte
- bestimtme
- bestmimte
- besttimmte
- betsimmte
- bsetimmte
- ebstimmte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bestimmte - 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 "bestimmte", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).