bevollmächtigen
[bəˈfɔlˌmɛçtɪɡn̩]
The verdict
“bevollmächtigen” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - jemandem eine Erlaubnis (Vollmacht) geben, meist um Rechtsgeschäfte in fremdem Namen zu tätigen
Corpus desk
Index DE-bevollmachtigen · bevollmächtigen · German
bevollmächtigen · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bevollmächtigen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [bəˈfɔlˌmɛçtɪɡn̩] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „bevollmächtigen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
bevollmächtigen is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [bəˈfɔlˌmɛçtɪɡn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "jemandem eine Erlaubnis (Vollmacht) geben, meist um Rechtsgeschäfte in fremdem Namen zu tätigen".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bevollmächtigen, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is bevollmächtigen, spelled B-E-V-O-L-L-M-Ä-C-H-T-I-G-E-N.
Definition
- 1jemandem eine Erlaubnis (Vollmacht) geben, meist um Rechtsgeschäfte in fremdem Namen zu tätigen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bevollmächtigen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Auch erklärten sie sich nachträglich mit den Beschlüssen des Gautages einverstanden, waren jedoch nicht bevollmächtigt, im Namen aller Libauer zu sprechen.“
Sie hatte ihre Tochter bevollmächtigt, die Bankgeschäfte zu erledigen.
Antonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.