bewohnen
[bəˈvoːnən]
The verdict
“bewohnen” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #31,966. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,966
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - in einem Gebäude wohnen, etwas als Wohnraum nutzen
Corpus desk
Index DE-bewohnen · bewohnen · German
bewohnen · rank #31,966 · 12 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,966
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH bewerbe
Nearest frequency peer: bewerbe (-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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „bewohnen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Bewachung
Bewachung
68,037 corpus weight
- bewerbe
bewerbe
68,036 corpus weight
- bewohnen
bewohnen
68,035 corpus weight
- bezichtigt
bezichtigt
68,034 corpus weight
- BFH
BFH
68,033 corpus weight
- Bildfläche
Bildfläche
68,032 corpus weight
What this shows „bewohnen“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bewohnen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [bəˈvoːnən] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #31,966 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „bewohnen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around bewohnen (IPA [bəˈvoːnən]), averb. Corpus frequency is #31,966 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "in einem Gebäude wohnen, etwas als Wohnraum nutzen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for bewohnen, with forms such as "bbewohnen", "beowhnen", and "bewhonen". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "Bohnen", "bewohnt", "Bewohner", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is bewohnen, spelled B-E-W-O-H-N-E-N.
Definition
- 1in einem Gebäude wohnen, etwas als Wohnraum nutzen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bewohnen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ich bewohne mit meiner Familie ein kleines Reihenhaus.
Bewohnt noch jemand dieses Haus?
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbewohnen
- beowhnen
- bewhonen
- bewohenn
- bewohhnen
- bewohnenn
- bewohnne
- bewohnnen
- bewonhen
- bewwohnen
- bweohnen
- ebwohnen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bewohnen - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bewohnen", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).