Abgrund
[ˈapˌɡʁʊnt]
The verdict
“Abgrund” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #10,025. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,025
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - schauerliche, gefährliche Tiefe
Corpus desk
Index DE-abgrund · Abgrund · German
Abgrund · rank #10,025 · 11 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,025
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH abhängen
Nearest frequency peer: abhängen (+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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „Abgrund“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- überarbeitet
überarbeitet
89,980 corpus weight
- überstanden
überstanden
89,979 corpus weight
- Abgrund
Abgrund
89,976 corpus weight
- abhängen
abhängen
89,975 corpus weight
- Abkürzung
Abkürzung
89,974 corpus weight
- abschaffen
abschaffen
89,973 corpus weight
What this shows „Abgrund“ 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 | Abgrund |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈapˌɡʁʊnt] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #10,025 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Abgrund“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Abgrund (IPA [ˈapˌɡʁʊnt]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,025 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Abgrund, with forms such as "abbgrund", "abggrund", and "abgrnud". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "aufgrund", "Abgründe", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Abgrund, spelled A-B-G-R-U-N-D.
Definition
- 1schauerliche, gefährliche Tiefe
- 2unverständliche, gefährliche Tiefe, die trennt oder ins Unglück führt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Abgrund appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sie blickten in einen tiefen Abgrund, der sich rechts und links weit hinzog.
„Evoziert wird eine Situation des Höhenschwindels, die an Rousseaus Faszination für Wasserfälle und Abgründe erinnert.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abbgrund
- abggrund
- abgrnud
- abgrrund
- abgrudn
- abgrundd
- abgrunnd
- abgurnd
- abrgund
- agbrund
- bagrund
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Abgrund - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "Abgrund", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).