Abgang
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,668
in German word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
13
similar word pairs
Abgang is aGermannoun. It means: Weg, der nach unten führt; eine Treppe, eine Rampe, die abwärts führt Pronounced [ˈapˌɡaŋ]. It ranks #9,668 in German word frequency. Often confused with Abgas and Anfang.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Abgang |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈapˌɡaŋ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #9,668 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Abgang is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈapˌɡaŋ]. Corpus data places it at rank #9,668 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for Abgang, with forms such as "abagng", "abbgang", and "abgagn". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "Abgas", "Anfang", "Anhang", 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 Abgang, spelled A-B-G-A-N-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Weg, der nach unten führt; eine Treppe, eine Rampe, die abwärts führt
- 2Verlassen einer Organisationseinheit; Rückzug eines Politikers, Mandatsträger, Würdenträgers
- 3Herabstürzen von Schnee- Eis- oder Geröllmassen
- 4Fehlgeburt, Verlust der Leibesfrucht; Ausscheiden eines versteinerten Fremdkörpers
- 5Verlassen der Bühne in einem Theaterstück
- 6Geschmackserlebnis beim Verköstigen von Wein, Nachgeschmack eines Schlucks Wein
- 7das Fehlen
- 8Abschluss / letzter Teil einer Übung an einem Turngerät (beispielsweise einem Barren, dem Reck, den Ringen, dem Schwebebalken), die im Stand enden sollte
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abagng,abbgang,abgagn,abgangg,abganng,abggang,abgnag,agbang,bagang
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "Abgang"
Frequency rank: #9,668 in German
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