Abduktion
Letters
9 characters
Language
German
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Abduktion is aGermannoun. It means: das Bewegen von Körperteilen von der Körperachse weg (zum Beispiel das Heben des Armes oder Beines nach außen, Spreizen von Fingern oder Zehen) Pronounced [ˌapdʊkˈt͡si̯oːn].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Abduktion |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˌapdʊkˈt͡si̯oːn] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for Abduktion is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌapdʊkˈt͡si̯oːn]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for Abduktion in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns.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 Abduktion, spelled A-B-D-U-K-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1das Bewegen von Körperteilen von der Körperachse weg (zum Beispiel das Heben des Armes oder Beines nach außen, Spreizen von Fingern oder Zehen)
- 2Auswärtsbewegung eines Auges
- 3Schluss von einer beobachteten Wirkung auf eine vermutete Ursache oder der Schluss auf die beste Erklärung
- 4eine Bezeichnung für die Entführung durch Außerirdische
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