abbauen
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#15,281
in German word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
16
similar word pairs
abbauen is aGermanverb. It means: bauliche und andere (auch zeitweilig errichteten) technische oder künstliche Anlagen, Einrichtungen, Aufbauten und Ähnliches beseitigen, zurückbauen Pronounced [ˈapˌbaʊ̯ən]. Often confused with Abgaben and absagen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abbauen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈapˌbaʊ̯ən] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #15,281 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for abbauen is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈapˌbaʊ̯ən]. Corpus data places it at rank #15,281 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for abbauen, with forms such as "ababuen", "abauen", and "abbaeun". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "Abgaben", "absagen", "abhauen", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is abbauen, spelled A-B-B-A-U-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1bauliche und andere (auch zeitweilig errichteten) technische oder künstliche Anlagen, Einrichtungen, Aufbauten und Ähnliches beseitigen, zurückbauen
- 2Rohstoffe, Baustoffe vor allem durch Bergbau und ähnliche Technologien gewinnen
- 3(vor allem auch übertragen) verringern, beseitigen; mindern von Hindernissen, die Prozesse behindern
- 4von komplexeren in einfachere Strukturen und Formen, in geringerwertige Zustände oder Qualitäten umwandeln
- 5sich körperlich oder geistig zurückentwickeln
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Also misspelled as: ababuen,abauen,abbaeun,abbauenn,abbaune,abbuaen,babauen
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Misspelling Variants of "abbauen"
Frequency rank: #15,281 in German
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