Abgötterei
[apɡœtəˈʁaɪ̯]
The verdict
“Abgötterei” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - die Verehrung von bildlichen Darstellungen von Göttern
Corpus desk
Index DE-abgotterei · Abgötterei · German
Abgötterei · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Abgötterei |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [apɡœtəˈʁaɪ̯] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Abgötterei“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Abgötterei is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [apɡœtəˈʁaɪ̯]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "die Verehrung von bildlichen Darstellungen von Göttern".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Abgötterei, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Abgötterei, spelled A-B-G-Ö-T-T-E-R-E-I.
Definition
- 1die Verehrung von bildlichen Darstellungen von Göttern
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Abgötterei appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Darum soll man Abgötterei mit größtem Fleiß fliehen, als auf welche nicht einfache Strafe, sondern endliche und äußerste Verwüstung folgt.“
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.