bet
[beːt]
The verdict
“bet” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #19,850) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #19,850
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs beten
Corpus desk
Index DE-bet · bet · German
bet · rank #19,850 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,850
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Bestreben
Nearest frequency peer: Bestreben (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „bet“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- berührte
berührte
80,153 corpus weight
- Bestreben
Bestreben
80,152 corpus weight
- bet
bet
80,151 corpus weight
- betriebenen
betriebenen
80,150 corpus weight
- Blutungen
Blutungen
80,149 corpus weight
- blöder
blöder
80,148 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „bet“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
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 | bet |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [beːt] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #19,850 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „bet“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bet is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "Br", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [beːt]. Frequency #19,850 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs beten".
No generated misspelling entries exist for bet in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "Br", "Bi", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is bet, spelled B-E-T.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs beten
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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