beschäftigt
\bəˈʃɛftɪçt\
The verdict
“beschäftigt” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Occupé(e).
Corpus desk
Index FR-beschaftigt · beschäftigt · French
beschäftigt · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 | beschäftigt |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bəˈʃɛftɪçt\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
beschäftigt is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \bəˈʃɛftɪçt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
beschäftigt has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is beschäftigt, spelled B-E-S-C-H-Ä-F-T-I-G-T.
Definition
- 1Occupé(e).
- 2Employé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how beschäftigt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ich kann jetzt nicht, ich bin beschäftigt.
Als wir am Tore des Pfarrhauses ankamen, einer niedrigen Hütte, die weder schöner noch bequemer war, als die benachbarten, sah ich da einen Mann beschäftigt ein Pferd zu beschlagen, mit lederner Schürze und einem Hammer in der Hand.
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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.