befehligen
\bəˈfeːlɪɡn̩\
The verdict
“befehligen” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Être chargé du pouvoir de commandement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-befehligen · befehligen · French
befehligen · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 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 | befehligen |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bəˈfeːlɪɡn̩\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
befehligen is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \bəˈfeːlɪɡn̩\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Être chargé du pouvoir de commandement.".
befehligen has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 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. The correct French form is befehligen, spelled B-E-F-E-H-L-I-G-E-N.
Definition
- 1Être chargé du pouvoir de commandement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how befehligen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"Es wäre jedenfalls fatal, wenn ein militärisch unerfahrener Präsident glaubt, militärische Operationen befehligen zu können." sagt (..)
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.