Betrachtung
[bəˈtʁaxtʊŋ]
The verdict
“Betrachtung” has 18 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #7,018. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,018
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - das Anschauen, Betrachten
Corpus desk
Index DE-betrachtung · Betrachtung · German
Betrachtung · rank #7,018 · 18 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,018
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH beten
Nearest frequency peer: beten (-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 „Betrachtung“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- bemerkte
bemerkte
92,986 corpus weight
- berufe
berufe
92,985 corpus weight
- beten
beten
92,984 corpus weight
- Betrachtung
Betrachtung
92,983 corpus weight
- Bienen
Bienen
92,982 corpus weight
- Boten
Boten
92,981 corpus weight
What this shows „Betrachtung“ 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 | Betrachtung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [bəˈtʁaxtʊŋ] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #7,018 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Betrachtung“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around Betrachtung (IPA [bəˈtʁaxtʊŋ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,018 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for Betrachtung, with forms such as "bbetrachtung", "bertachtung", and "betarchtung". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "Betrachtungen", "Beachtung", "betrachten", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Betrachtung, spelled B-E-T-R-A-C-H-T-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1das Anschauen, Betrachten
- 2die ästhetische Beurteilung von etwas
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Betrachtung appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Wir können da nichts ändern, selbst wenn wir es wollten. Besser als durch beider Betrachtungen über das, was zugänglich und was verschlossen ist, was man ändern und nicht ändern kann, läßt sich die Differenz der Raumbegriffe und Raumerfahrungen von Ost- und Westdeutschen kaum ausdrücken. In Eisenhüttenstadt, wo jegliches kommerzielles Privateigentum vers…
„In solchen Betrachtungen erging sich der Türke, und wir verbrachten damit vier Stunden.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbetrachtung
- bertachtung
- betarchtung
- betracchtung
- betrachhtung
- betrachtnug
- betrachttung
- betrachtugn
- betrachtungg
- betrachtunng
- betrachutng
- betracthung
- betrahctung
- betrcahtung
- betrrachtung
- bettrachtung
- bterachtung
- ebtrachtung
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Betrachtung - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Same letter count
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