Abend
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#405
in German word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
16
similar word pairs
Abend is aGermannoun. It means: die Tageszeit nach dem Nachmittag, die beginnt, wenn die Sonne den Horizont erreicht, und bei völliger Dunkelheit endet; dem Abend geht der Tag voran und auf den Abend folgt die Nacht Pronounced [ˈaːbn̩t]. It ranks #405 in German word frequency. Often confused with and and aber.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Abend |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈaːbn̩t] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #405 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Abend is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈaːbn̩t]. Corpus data places it at rank #405 in overall German word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.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 Abend, with forms such as "abbend", "abedn", and "abendd". 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, "and", "aber", "amen", 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 Abend, spelled A-B-E-N-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1die Tageszeit nach dem Nachmittag, die beginnt, wenn die Sonne den Horizont erreicht, und bei völliger Dunkelheit endet; dem Abend geht der Tag voran und auf den Abend folgt die Nacht
- 2die Himmelsrichtung Westen
- 3verschliffene Begrüßungsfloskel „guten Abend“
- 4Abschluss, Ende, Schluss (für Leben, Epochen, langandauernde Herrschaften und Ähnlichem)
- 5Abendveranstaltung; Abend mit heiterem, vielgestaltigem Programm; Abendempfang
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abbend,abedn,abendd,abennd,abned,aebnd,baend
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Abend
Misspelling Variants of "Abend"
Frequency rank: #405 in German
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Nearby German words
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