bewegen
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,960
in German word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
bewegen is aGermanverb. It means: die Lage oder Stellung von etwas im Raum verändern; etwas von einem Ort zum anderen schaffen Pronounced [bəˈveːɡn̩]. It ranks #1,960 in German word frequency. Often confused with bewegt and biegen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bewegen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [bəˈveːɡn̩] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,960 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for bewegen is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [bəˈveːɡn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,960 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for bewegen, with forms such as "bbewegen", "beewgen", and "beweegn". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bewegt", "biegen", "bezogen", 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 bewegen, spelled B-E-W-E-G-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1die Lage oder Stellung von etwas im Raum verändern; etwas von einem Ort zum anderen schaffen
- 2die eigene Lage oder Stellung im Raum verändern; von einem Ort zum anderen kommen
- 3körperlich betätigen
- 4jemanden innerlich erregen oder beeindrucken, bestimmte Gefühle hervorrufen
- 5jemanden gedanklich beschäftigen
- 6sich gedanklich einer Sache widmen, sie bedenken
- 7sich in bestimmter Art und Weise benehmen, verhalten
- 8Umgang pflegen, Kontakte haben
- 9sich (in einem bestimmten Bereich) befinden
- 10Änderungen zeigen, sich ereignen
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbewegen,beewgen,beweegn,bewegenn,beweggen,bewegne,bewgeen,bewwegen,bweegen,ebwegen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bewegen
Misspelling Variants of "bewegen"
Frequency rank: #1,960 in German
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