bekanntmachen
\bəˈkantˌmaxn̩\
The verdict
“bekanntmachen” 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 September 3, 2026) - Faire connaitre, rendre public, publier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bekanntmachen · bekanntmachen · French
bekanntmachen · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 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 | bekanntmachen |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bəˈkantˌmaxn̩\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
bekanntmachen is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \bəˈkantˌmaxn̩\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Faire connaitre, rendre public, publier.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bekanntmachen, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is bekanntmachen, spelled B-E-K-A-N-N-T-M-A-C-H-E-N.
Definition
- 1Faire connaitre, rendre public, publier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bekanntmachen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bis dahin hatten weder die Zeitungen noch die Agentur Ransdoc eine amtliche Mitteilung mit Krankenstatistiken bekommen. Nun übermittelte der Präfekt sie Tag für Tag der Agentur, mit der Bitte, sie wöchentlich bekanntzumachen.
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.