abdanken
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#76,452
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
abdanken is aGermanverb. It means: den Abschied nehmen, zurücktreten Pronounced [ˈapˌdaŋkn̩].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abdanken |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈapˌdaŋkn̩] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #76,452 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for abdanken is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈapˌdaŋkn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #76,452 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for abdanken in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 abdanken, spelled A-B-D-A-N-K-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1den Abschied nehmen, zurücktreten
- 2für jemanden eine Trauerfeier in der Kirche abhalten
- 3(vor allem Soldaten oder Hauspersonal) aus dem bisherigen Dienst, aus den bisherigen Aufgaben entlassen; verabschieden
- 4den Hund streicheln, nachdem er eine gute Leistung gezeigt hat
- 5Treiber und andere Beteiligte einer Jagd nach deren Ende nach Hause entlassen
- 6einen Berufsjäger aus dem Dienst entlassen
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Frequency rank: #76,452 in German
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