Bezirk
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,878
in German word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
Bezirk is aGermannoun. It means: abgegrenztes Gebiet, abgegrenzter Bereich Pronounced [bəˈt͡sɪʁk]. It ranks #2,878 in German word frequency. Often confused with Birk and Bezirke.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bezirk |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [bəˈt͡sɪʁk] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #2,878 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Bezirk is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [bəˈt͡sɪʁk]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,878 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for Bezirk, with forms such as "bbezirk", "beizrk", and "bezikr". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "Birk", "Bezirke", "Bezirks", 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 Bezirk, spelled B-E-Z-I-R-K, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1abgegrenztes Gebiet, abgegrenzter Bereich
- 2Sachbereich, Themengebiet, Themenbereich
- 3Gegend, Landstrich
- 4Verwaltungseinheit auf Landes-, Stadt- und Gemeindeebene
- 5regional Dienststelle eines Bezirks [4] in der DDR
- 6kommunale Gebietskörperschaft (Gemeindeverbände höherer Stufe), die diejenigen kommunalen Aufgaben übernimmt, für die die Gemeinden und Landkreise nicht leistungsfähig genug sind
- 7Gemeinwesen auf der untersten Stufe des Verwaltungsaufbaus, das den Politischen Gemeinden in den anderen Kantonen entspricht
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbezirk,beizrk,bezikr,bezirkk,bezirrk,bezrik,bezzirk,bzeirk,ebzirk
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Bezirk
Misspelling Variants of "Bezirk"
Frequency rank: #2,878 in German
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