Bewusstsein
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,027
in German word usage
Misspellings
16
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
Bewusstsein is aGermannoun. It means: das Wissen von der eigenen Existenz, Selbstwahrnehmung als eigenständig denkendes Lebewesen Pronounced [bəˈvʊstzaɪ̯n]. It ranks #4,027 in German word frequency. Often confused with Bewusstseins and bewussten.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bewusstsein |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [bəˈvʊstzaɪ̯n] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #4,027 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Bewusstsein is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [bəˈvʊstzaɪ̯n]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,027 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for Bewusstsein, with forms such as "bbewusstsein", "beuwsstsein", and "bewsustsein". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Bewusstseins", "bewussten", 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 Bewusstsein, spelled B-E-W-U-S-S-T-S-E-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1das Wissen von der eigenen Existenz, Selbstwahrnehmung als eigenständig denkendes Lebewesen
- 2das Wissen von bestimmten Fakten, das Erinnern an bestimmte Ereignisse
- 3Zustand geistiger Wachheit, geistige Klarheit
- 4Summe der Überzeugungen und Standpunkte
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbewusstsein,beuwsstsein,bewsustsein,bewussstein,bewusstesin,bewusstseinn,bewusstseni,bewusstsien,bewusstssein,bewussttsein,bewustsein,bewustssein,bewußtsein,bewwusstsein,bweusstsein,ebwusstsein
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Bewusstsein
Misspelling Variants of "Bewusstsein"
Frequency rank: #4,027 in German
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