bewahren
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,868
in German word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
17
similar word pairs
bewahren is aGermanverb. It means: etwas Positives auch in einer schwierigen Situation beibehalten Pronounced [bəˈvaːʁən]. It ranks #4,868 in German word frequency. Often confused with bewährt and bezahlen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bewahren |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [bəˈvaːʁən] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #4,868 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for bewahren is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [bəˈvaːʁən]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,868 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for bewahren, with forms such as "bbewahren", "beawhren", and "bewahern". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "bewährt", "bezahlen", "bewährte", 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 bewahren, spelled B-E-W-A-H-R-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1etwas Positives auch in einer schwierigen Situation beibehalten
- 2sich etwas erhalten
- 3vor einer Gefahr schützen
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbewahren,beawhren,bewahern,bewahhren,bewahrenn,bewahrne,bewahrren,bewarhen,bewharen,bewwahren,bweahren,ebwahren
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bewahren
Misspelling Variants of "bewahren"
Frequency rank: #4,868 in German
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Nearby German words
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