Bewandtnis
[bəˈvantnɪs]
The verdict
“Bewandtnis” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Merkmal, Beschaffenheit, Sinn, Zweck, Hintergrund einer Sache oder Person
Corpus desk
Index DE-bewandtnis · Bewandtnis · German
Bewandtnis · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 | Bewandtnis |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [bəˈvantnɪs] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Bewandtnis“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Bewandtnis is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [bəˈvantnɪs]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Merkmal, Beschaffenheit, Sinn, Zweck, Hintergrund einer Sache oder Person".
Bewandtnis has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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. The correct German form is Bewandtnis, spelled B-E-W-A-N-D-T-N-I-S.
Definition
- 1Merkmal, Beschaffenheit, Sinn, Zweck, Hintergrund einer Sache oder Person
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Bewandtnis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mit diesem Gegenstand hat es eine besondere Bewandtnis.
„Nach der Schule, zwischen den Arbeiten für das Maturum lief er in der Stadt umher und versuchte herauszubekommen, was es eigentlich für eine Bewandtnis mit dem Schuß auf Eugen Bast hatte.“
This word in other languages
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.