bestätigen
\bəˈʃtɛːtɪɡn̩\
The verdict
“bestätigen” 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) - Confirmer, prouver plus fortement quelque chose, l’appuyer de quelque preuve décisive.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bestatigen · bestätigen · French
bestätigen · 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 | bestätigen |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bəˈʃtɛːtɪɡn̩\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
bestätigen is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \bəˈʃtɛːtɪɡn̩\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bestätigen, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is bestätigen, spelled B-E-S-T-Ä-T-I-G-E-N.
Definition
- 1Confirmer, prouver plus fortement quelque chose, l’appuyer de quelque preuve décisive.
- 2Témoigner, attester, confirmer que quelque chose est vraie ou correcte.
- 3Confirmer, sanctionner, ratifier, certifier, homologuer.
- 4Accepter une offre.
- 5Confirmer la réception de.
- 6S'avérer, se révéler juste, exact ou correct.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bestätigen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
einen Verdacht bestätigen
Am Montagabend hatte das bayerische Gesundheitsministerium den ersten Fall des neuartigen Coronavirus in Deutschland bestätigt.
Antonyms
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.