abfressen
Letters
9 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
0
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abfressen is aGermanverb. It means: einen Bestandteil von etwas abtrennen und verzehren (fressen) etwas von etwas anderem durch Fressen entfernen Pronounced [ˈapˌfʁɛsn̩].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abfressen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈapˌfʁɛsn̩] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for abfressen is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈapˌfʁɛsn̩]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for abfressen 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 abfressen, spelled A-B-F-R-E-S-S-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1einen Bestandteil von etwas abtrennen und verzehren (fressen) etwas von etwas anderem durch Fressen entfernen
- 2eine Pflanze/Pflanzung von Essbarem befreien, alles aufessen
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