bekend or bekent?

Both spellings are correct, but they have different grammatical jobs.

bekend

correctly spelled

Past participle

bekent

correctly spelled

Present singular (jij/je before the verb; u/hij/zij/het)

Why?

bekent is the singular present form with subject-first jij/je, with u (also after the verb), or with a third-person singular subject. In inversion, subject jij/je takes the ik-form instead. bekend is the past participle of bekennen.

Verb forms

Infinitive: bekennen
Stem (ik-form): beken
Present singular (jij/je before the verb; u/hij/zij/het): bekent
Past participle: bekend

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