abändern
[ˈapˌʔɛndɐn]
The verdict
“abändern” is uncommon German (frequency #51,085 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,085
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - etwas ein wenig, meist zum Besseren, verändern/anpassen
Corpus desk
Index DE-abandern · abändern · German
abändern · rank #51,085 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,085
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH abzuwickeln
Nearest frequency peer: abzuwickeln (-1 rank slots)
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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „abändern“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Abschieds
Abschieds
48,919 corpus weight
- absenken
absenken
48,918 corpus weight
- abzuwickeln
abzuwickeln
48,917 corpus weight
- abändern
abändern
48,916 corpus weight
- achtsam
achtsam
48,915 corpus weight
- Aderlass
Aderlass
48,914 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „abändern“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abändern |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈapˌʔɛndɐn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #51,085 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „abändern“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
abändern is uncommon German at frequency #51,085 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈapˌʔɛndɐn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for abändern, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is abändern, spelled A-B-Ä-N-D-E-R-N.
Definition
- 1etwas ein wenig, meist zum Besseren, verändern/anpassen
- 2durch Änderung aufheben/beseitigen
- 3in den einzelnen grammatischen Fällen beugen
- 4durch Umweltfaktoren oder Mutation Variationen in den Artmerkmalen aufweisen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how abändern appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ich ändere den Rock ab, wenn er dir nicht gefällt.
„Das türkische Grundgesetz soll in 27 Punkten abgeändert werden.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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