betrifft
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,195
in German word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
betrifft is aGermanverb. It means: 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs betreffen Pronounced [bəˈtʁɪft]. It ranks #2,195 in German word frequency. Often confused with betritt and Begriff.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | betrifft |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [bəˈtʁɪft] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #2,195 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for betrifft is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [bəˈtʁɪft]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,195 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs betreffen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for betrifft, with forms such as "bbetrifft", "bertifft", and "betirfft". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "betritt", "Begriff", "Betreff", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is betrifft, spelled B-E-T-R-I-F-F-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 13. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs betreffen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbetrifft,bertifft,betirfft,betrfift,betrifftt,betrift,betriftf,betrrifft,bettrifft,bterifft,ebtrifft
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for betrifft
Misspelling Variants of "betrifft"
Frequency rank: #2,195 in German
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