bewachsen
[bəˈvaksn̩]
The verdict
“bewachsen” is uncommon German (frequency #51,979 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,979
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - von einer Pflanze bedeckt, Bewuchs von einer Pflanze aufweisend
Corpus desk
Index DE-bewachsen · bewachsen · German
bewachsen · rank #51,979 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,979
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH beurteilte
Nearest frequency peer: beurteilte (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “bewachsen”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Besteller
Besteller
48,025 corpus weight
- beständigen
beständigen
48,024 corpus weight
- beurteilte
beurteilte
48,023 corpus weight
- bewachsen
bewachsen
48,022 corpus weight
- bewaldeten
bewaldeten
48,021 corpus weight
- Bezugsperso…
Bezugspersonen
48,020 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “bewachsen” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bewachsen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [bəˈvaksn̩] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #51,979 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “bewachsen” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Rare enough to double-check
bewachsen is uncommon German at frequency #51,979 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [bəˈvaksn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "von einer Pflanze bedeckt, Bewuchs von einer Pflanze aufweisend".
No misspelling variants are generated for bewachsen in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 bewachsen, spelled B-E-W-A-C-H-S-E-N.
Definition
- 1von einer Pflanze bedeckt, Bewuchs von einer Pflanze aufweisend
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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