besungen
[bəˈzʊŋən]
The verdict
“besungen” is uncommon German (frequency #55,182 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,182
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partizip Perfekt des Verbs besingen
Corpus desk
Index DE-besungen · besungen · German
besungen · rank #55,182 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,182
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Bestimmungsort
Nearest frequency peer: Bestimmungsort (-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 „besungen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- beschwingt
beschwingt
44,822 corpus weight
- Besetzer
Besetzer
44,821 corpus weight
- Bestimmungs…
Bestimmungsort
44,820 corpus weight
- besungen
besungen
44,819 corpus weight
- beteten
beteten
44,818 corpus weight
- Betriebskli…
Betriebsklima
44,817 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „besungen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| 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) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „besungen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
besungen is uncommon German at frequency #55,182 among 5,818 “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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