bewölken
[bəˈvœlkn̩]
The verdict
“bewölken” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mit mehr und zunehmend mehr Wolken versehen sein/werden
Corpus desk
Index DE-bewolken · bewölken · German
bewölken · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 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 | bewölken |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [bəˈvœlkn̩] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „bewölken“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
bewölken is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [bəˈvœlkn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bewölken, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 bewölken, spelled B-E-W-Ö-L-K-E-N.
Definition
- 1mit mehr und zunehmend mehr Wolken versehen sein/werden
- 2langsam einen irritierten, abweisenden Ausdruck annehmen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bewölken appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nach dem Lunch bewölkt sich der Himmel, Madde und Vicky helfen mir freundlicherweise, die Sachen reinzutragen.
„Aber warum bewölkt sich Miriams Stirn? Freut sie sich nicht?“
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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.