besiegen
\bəˈziː.ɡən\
The verdict
“besiegen” 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) - Battre, vaincre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-besiegen · besiegen · French
besiegen · 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 | besiegen |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bəˈziː.ɡən\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
besiegen is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \bəˈziː.ɡən\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Battre, vaincre.".
besiegen doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 besiegen, spelled B-E-S-I-E-G-E-N.
Definition
- 1Battre, vaincre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how besiegen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ich habe ihn im Tennis besiegt.
Der ukrainische Präsident Wolodimir Selenski glaubt nicht, dass die russischen Invasoren im Kampf um Kiew wirklich besiegt sind.
Synonyms
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.