bekannt geben
\bəˈkantˌɡeːbn̩\
The verdict
“bekannt geben” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Rendre public ou rendre publique, annoncer, faire savoir officiellement quelque chose à tous et toutes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bekannt geben |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bəˈkantˌɡeːbn̩\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bekannt geben” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
bekannt geben is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \bəˈkantˌɡeːbn̩\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Rendre public ou rendre publique, annoncer, faire savoir officiellement quelque chose à tous et toutes.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for bekannt geben, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 bekannt geben, spelled B-E-K-A-N-N-T- -G-E-B-E-N.
Definition
- 1Rendre public ou rendre publique, annoncer, faire savoir officiellement quelque chose à tous et toutes.
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.
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Using “bekannt geben”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is B-E-K-A-N-N-T- -G-E-B-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \bəˈkantˌɡeːbn̩\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.