abfahren
[ˈapˌfaːʁən]
The verdict
“abfahren” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #25,020. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,020
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sich (fahrend, im Fahrzeug) von einem Ort wegbegeben
Corpus desk
Index DE-abfahren · abfahren · German
abfahren · rank #25,020 · 12 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,020
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH Abschnitts
Nearest frequency peer: Abschnitts (+2 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „abfahren“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- überschrieb…
überschrieben
74,986 corpus weight
- übler
übler
74,985 corpus weight
- abfahren
abfahren
74,981 corpus weight
- Abschnitts
Abschnitts
74,979 corpus weight
- Ackerland
Ackerland
74,978 corpus weight
- Adventskale…
Adventskalender
74,977 corpus weight
What this shows „abfahren“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abfahren |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈapˌfaːʁən] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #25,020 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „abfahren“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around abfahren (IPA [ˈapˌfaːʁən]), averb. Corpus frequency is #25,020 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for abfahren, with forms such as "abafhren", "abbfahren", and "abfahern". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "Abfahrt", "Affären", "anführen", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is abfahren, spelled A-B-F-A-H-R-E-N.
Definition
- 1sich (fahrend, im Fahrzeug) von einem Ort wegbegeben
- 2etwas von einem Ort (fahrend, mit einem Fahrzeug) an einen anderen Ort bringen
- 3etwas (fahrend, bei der Fahrt, mit einem Fahrzeug) abtrennen
- 4eine bestimmte Strecke entlangfahren
- 5jemandem eine Abfuhr erteilen
- 6sehr gerne mögen
- 7nach unten, an einen tiefer gelegenen Ort – in die Tiefe (abwärts) –, fahren
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how abfahren appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der Zug fährt am Hauptbahnhof ab.
„Als wir abfahren, bin ich froh, durch das Rückfenster die Schar der Dorfbewohner kleiner werden zu sehen.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abafhren
- abbfahren
- abfahern
- abfahhren
- abfahrenn
- abfahrne
- abfahrren
- abfarhen
- abffahren
- abfharen
- afbahren
- bafahren
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of abfahren - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "abfahren", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).