bewahren
\bəˈvaːʁən\
The verdict
“bewahren” 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) - Préserver, garder, conserver.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bewahren · bewahren · French
bewahren · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 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 | bewahren |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bəˈvaːʁən\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bewahren » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bewahren is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \bəˈvaːʁən\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
bewahren doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is bewahren, spelled B-E-W-A-H-R-E-N.
Definition
- 1Préserver, garder, conserver.
- 2Protéger, empêcher de confronter un mal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bewahren appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Scholz sollte auch deutlich machen, dass (...) Deutschland es als zentrale Herausforderung sieht, den friedlichen Status quo in der Straße von Taiwan zu bewahren und Peking von der Anwendung von Gewalt abzuschrecken.
Leitendes Prinzip für Chamenei ist, den Geist der Islamischen Revolution von 1979 zu bewahren - und Raisi galt nicht nur ideologisch als linientreu; seine Biografie prädestinierte ihn für diese Rolle.
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.