Besuch
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,101
in German word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
15
similar word pairs
Besuch is aGermannoun. It means: vorübergehendes Aufsuchen des Aufenthaltsorts einer Person, vorübergehendes Aufsuchen eines Gebäudes oder einer Institution auf eigene Initiative Pronounced [bəˈzuːx]. It ranks #1,101 in German word frequency. Often confused with Buch and Bruch.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Besuch |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [bəˈzuːx] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,101 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Besuch is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [bəˈzuːx]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,101 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 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 Besuch, with forms such as "bbesuch", "bescuh", and "bessuch". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "Buch", "Bruch", "Busch", 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 Besuch, spelled B-E-S-U-C-H, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1vorübergehendes Aufsuchen des Aufenthaltsorts einer Person, vorübergehendes Aufsuchen eines Gebäudes oder einer Institution auf eigene Initiative
- 2Person oder Personen, die ^([1]) tätigen
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbesuch,bescuh,bessuch,besucch,besuchh,besuhc,beusch,bseuch,ebsuch
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Besuch
Misspelling Variants of "Besuch"
Frequency rank: #1,101 in German
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