betätigen
[bəˈtɛːtɪɡn̩]
The verdict
“betätigen” has 13 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #19,157. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,157
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - etwas benutzen, um etwas in Gang zu setzen
Corpus desk
Index DE-betatigen · betätigen · German
betätigen · rank #19,157 · 13 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,157
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH betet
Nearest frequency peer: betet (-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 „betätigen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- beschädigte
beschädigte
80,847 corpus weight
- Beteiligung…
Beteiligungen
80,846 corpus weight
- betet
betet
80,845 corpus weight
- betätigen
betätigen
80,844 corpus weight
- bevorstehen…
bevorstehende
80,843 corpus weight
- bewacht
bewacht
80,842 corpus weight
What this shows „betätigen“ 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 | betätigen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [bəˈtɛːtɪɡn̩] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #19,157 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „betätigen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around betätigen (IPA [bəˈtɛːtɪɡn̩]), averb. Corpus frequency is #19,157 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for betätigen, with forms such as "bbetätigen", "bettäigen", and "bettätigen". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "betätigt", "betätigte", "bewältigen", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is betätigen, spelled B-E-T-Ä-T-I-G-E-N.
Definition
- 1etwas benutzen, um etwas in Gang zu setzen
- 2sich beschäftigen, eine Tätigkeit ausüben
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how betätigen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ich betätige jetzt versuchsweise den roten Schalter.
Betätigen Sie den Hebel, um die Hebebühne zu senken.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbetätigen
- bettäigen
- bettätigen
- betäitgen
- betätgien
- betätiegn
- betätigenn
- betätiggen
- betätigne
- betättigen
- beättigen
- bteätigen
- ebtätigen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of betätigen - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "betätigen", 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 (13 here; floor ≥5).