ABGB
[aːbeːɡeːˈbeː]
The verdict
“ABGB” is uncommon German (frequency #51,076 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as an abbreviation. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,076
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Allgemeines Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch (die Zivilrechtskodifikation der Republik Österreich, in Kraft gesetzt 1812)
Corpus desk
Index DE-abgb · ABGB · German
ABGB · rank #51,076 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,076
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH abgegolten
Nearest frequency peer: abgegolten (+1 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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „ABGB“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Abdichtung
Abdichtung
48,929 corpus weight
- Abenddämmer…
Abenddämmerung
48,928 corpus weight
- Aberkennung
Aberkennung
48,927 corpus weight
- ABGB
ABGB
48,925 corpus weight
- abgegolten
abgegolten
48,924 corpus weight
- Abigail
Abigail
48,922 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „ABGB“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ABGB |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | [aːbeːɡeːˈbeː] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #51,076 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „ABGB“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
ABGB is uncommon German at frequency #51,076 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as anabbreviation, transcribed [aːbeːɡeːˈbeː]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Allgemeines Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch (die Zivilrechtskodifikation der Republik Österreich, in Kraft gesetzt 1812)".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ABGB, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is ABGB, spelled A-B-G-B.
Definition
- 1Allgemeines Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch (die Zivilrechtskodifikation der Republik Österreich, in Kraft gesetzt 1812)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ABGB appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Dem Schuldschein des deutschen und schweizerischen Rechts entspricht in Österreich der in § 1428 ABGB geregelte Schuldschein; die in §§ 985 und 990 ABGB bezeichneten öffentlichen Schuldscheine sind dagegen Wertpapiere.“
„Das ABGB unterschied zwischen Scheidung von Tisch und Bett (§§ 103ff.) und der Ehetrennung (§§ 115ff.).“
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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