bedienen
\bəˈdiːnən\
The verdict
“bedienen” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Servir. (suivi de l’accusatif)
Corpus desk
Index FR-bedienen · bedienen · French
bedienen · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" 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 | bedienen |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bəˈdiːnən\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bedienen » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bedienen is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \bəˈdiːnən\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 7 senses are on record.
bedienen has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is bedienen, spelled B-E-D-I-E-N-E-N.
Definition
- 1Servir. (suivi de l’accusatif)
- 2Se servir.
- 3Manœuvrer, conduire, faire fonctionner (une machine). (suivi de l’accusatif)
- 4Rembourser de façon régulière, honorer. (suivi de l’accusatif)
- 5Fournir au jeu de cartes. (Mettre la carte prévue par la règle du jeu).
- 6Passer, servir un ballon, une balle à un coéquipier.
- 7Répondre, servir, satisfaire (un besoin, un goût, une préférence).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bedienen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Gustave, der Ober, bedient die Gäste.
Zu dieser Stunde blieb der »Totschläger« leer. Der Vater Colombe, ein dicker Vierziger in der Ärmelweste, bediente ein kleines zehnjähriges Mädchen, das um vier Sous Korn in einer Tasse verlangte.
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.