bezwingen
[bəˈt͡svɪŋən]
The verdict
“bezwingen” has 14 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #24,271. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,271
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - jemand oder etwas überwältigen; in einem Kampf besiegen
Corpus desk
Index DE-bezwingen · bezwingen · German
bezwingen · rank #24,271 · 14 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,271
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH bewerkstellig…
Nearest frequency peer: bewerkstelligen (-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 „bezwingen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Bevölkerung…
Bevölkerungsgruppen
75,733 corpus weight
- bewahre
bewahre
75,732 corpus weight
- bewerkstell…
bewerkstelligen
75,731 corpus weight
- bezwingen
bezwingen
75,730 corpus weight
- biegt
biegt
75,729 corpus weight
- blanke
blanke
75,728 corpus weight
What this shows „bezwingen“ 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 | bezwingen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [bəˈt͡svɪŋən] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #24,271 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „bezwingen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around bezwingen (IPA [bəˈt͡svɪŋən]), averb. Corpus frequency is #24,271 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for bezwingen, with forms such as "bbezwingen", "bewzingen", and "beziwngen". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "bezwungen", "bedingen", "begingen", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is bezwingen, spelled B-E-Z-W-I-N-G-E-N.
Definition
- 1jemand oder etwas überwältigen; in einem Kampf besiegen
- 2ein Hindernis überwinden
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bezwingen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Er konnte seinen Gegner mit seiner Kraft bezwingen.
„Daniil Medwedew […] hat die US Open gewonnen […]. Der 25-jährige Russe bezwang den Weltranglistenersten aus Serbien am Sonntag (Ortszeit) in New York mit 6:4, 6:4 und 6:4 […].“
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbezwingen
- bewzingen
- beziwngen
- bezwignen
- bezwinegn
- bezwingenn
- bezwinggen
- bezwingne
- bezwinngen
- bezwnigen
- bezwwingen
- bezzwingen
- bzewingen
- ebzwingen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bezwingen - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "bezwingen", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).