bevormunden
The verdict
“bevormunden” is an uncommon German word, ranked #66,047 in German word frequency and used as a verb.
- #66,047
- frequency rank, German
- 11
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: eine Person oder eine Gruppe von Personen (Staat, Staatsbürger, Gruppe) nicht selbstständig denken, entscheiden oder handeln lassen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bevormunden |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [bəˈfoːɐ̯mʊndən] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #66,047 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bevormunden” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for bevormunden is 11 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [bəˈfoːɐ̯mʊndən]. Corpus data places it at rank #66,047 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "eine Person oder eine Gruppe von Personen (Staat, Staatsbürger, Gruppe) nicht selbstständig denken, entscheiden oder handeln lassen".
No misspelling variants are generated for bevormunden in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 bevormunden, spelled B-E-V-O-R-M-U-N-D-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1eine Person oder eine Gruppe von Personen (Staat, Staatsbürger, Gruppe) nicht selbstständig denken, entscheiden oder handeln lassen
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Frequency rank: #66,047 in German
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is B-E-V-O-R-M-U-N-D-E-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [bəˈfoːɐ̯mʊndən] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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