confess
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The verdict
“confess” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - gestehen, eingestehen, sich bekennen, sich schuldig bekennen
Corpus desk
Index DE-confess · confess · German
confess · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" 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 | confess |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „confess“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
confess is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
confess has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is confess, spelled C-O-N-F-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1gestehen, eingestehen, sich bekennen, sich schuldig bekennen
- 2beichten
- 3gestehen, eingestehen, bekennen
- 4beichten
- 5zugeben
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how confess appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"Mr. Darcy is impatient to see his sister; and, to confess the truth, we are scarcely less eager to meet her again."
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.