abdecken
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#16,341
in German word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
abdecken is aGermanverb. It means: eine Decke entfernen Pronounced [ˈapˌdɛkn̩]. Often confused with abdeckt and ablenken.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abdecken |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈapˌdɛkn̩] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #16,341 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for abdecken is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈapˌdɛkn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #16,341 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for abdecken, with forms such as "abbdecken", "abdceken", and "abddecken". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "abdeckt", "ablenken", "Andenken", 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 abdecken, spelled A-B-D-E-C-K-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1eine Decke entfernen
- 2ein Dach von Dachziegeln oder vom Dachbelag befreien
- 3von einem Tisch, einer Tafel das Geschirr abräumen
- 4einen Tierkadaver enthäuten, beseitigen, verwerten
- 5waidmännisch aus der Decke schlagen, das Fell abziehen, abnehmen
- 6einen Gegenstand bedecken
- 7einen Wunsch, Bedarf, eine Schuld und Ähnliches ausgleichen, befriedigen, erfüllen
- 8einen Zeitabschnitt, Raum, Bereich, ein Gebiet (geographisch) umspannen, erfassen, überdecken
- 9auf einem Fachgebiet kompetent sein
- 10für eine Verteidigung sorgen
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abbdecken,abdceken,abddecken,abdeccken,abdecekn,abdeckenn,abdeckken,abdeckne,abdekcen,abedcken,adbecken,badecken
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for abdecken
Misspelling Variants of "abdecken"
Frequency rank: #16,341 in German
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