einen Besen fressen
The verdict
“einen Besen fressen” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a phrase — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 19
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: etwas stark bezweifeln, etwas nicht glauben (gemeint als Wetteinsatz, von dem man sich sicher ist, ihn nie leisten zu müssen)
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | einen Besen fressen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈaɪ̯nən ˈbeːzn̩ ˈfʁɛsn̩] |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “einen Besen fressen” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for einen Besen fressen is 19 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈaɪ̯nən ˈbeːzn̩ ˈfʁɛsn̩]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "etwas stark bezweifeln, etwas nicht glauben (gemeint als Wetteinsatz, von dem man sich sicher ist, ihn nie leisten zu müssen)".
No misspelling variants are generated for einen Besen fressen in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 einen Besen fressen, spelled E-I-N-E-N- -B-E-S-E-N- -F-R-E-S-S-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1etwas stark bezweifeln, etwas nicht glauben (gemeint als Wetteinsatz, von dem man sich sicher ist, ihn nie leisten zu müssen)
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Using “einen Besen fressen”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is E-I-N-E-N- -B-E-S-E-N- -F-R-E-S-S-E-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈaɪ̯nən ˈbeːzn̩ ˈfʁɛsn̩] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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