abhören
[ˈapˌhøːʁən]
The verdict
“abhören” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #27,172. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,172
- frequency rank, German
- 113,935
- “A” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Gelerntes aufsagen lassen und dadurch den Erfolg kontrollieren
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 | abhören |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈapˌhøːʁən] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #27,172 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “abhören” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around abhören (IPA [ˈapˌhøːʁən]), averb. Corpus frequency is #27,172 among 113,935 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for abhören, with forms such as "abbhören", "abhhören", and "abhröen". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "Ahorn", "Azoren", "Autoren", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 abhören, spelled A-B-H-Ö-R-E-N.
Definition
- 1Gelerntes aufsagen lassen und dadurch den Erfolg kontrollieren
- 2akustisch Produziertes (CD, Schallplatte, Sendung, ...) anhören
- 3anhören, was eine Zielperson äußert, ohne dass diese davon erfährt
- 4den Zustand eines Organs mit Hilfe eines Stethoskops überprüfen
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abbhören
- abhhören
- abhröen
- abhöern
- abhörenn
- abhörne
- abhörren
- aböhren
- ahbören
- bahören
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of abhören - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Using “abhören”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is A-B-H-Ö-R-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈapˌhøːʁən] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Ahorn” - see the side-by-side comparison. abhören vs Ahorn
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Same frequency band
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.