besungen
[bəˈzʊŋən]
The verdict
“besungen” is uncommon German (frequency #55,182 among 72,680 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,182
- frequency rank, German
- 72,680
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Partizip Perfekt des Verbs besingen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | besungen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [bəˈzʊŋən] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #55,182 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “besungen” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
besungen is uncommon German at frequency #55,182 among 72,680 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [bəˈzʊŋən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partizip Perfekt des Verbs besingen".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for besungen, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is besungen, spelled B-E-S-U-N-G-E-N.
Definition
- 1Partizip Perfekt des Verbs besingen
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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Using “besungen”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is B-E-S-U-N-G-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.