Abi
[ˈabi]
The verdict
“Abi” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #9,313) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #9,313
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abschlussprüfung an einer höheren Schule, deren erfolgreiche Absolvierung zum Hochschulstudium berechtigt
Corpus desk
Index DE-abi · Abi · German
Abi · rank #9,313 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,313
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH abgelaufen
Nearest frequency peer: abgelaufen (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „Abi“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Öffnungszei…
Öffnungszeiten
90,690 corpus weight
- abgelaufen
abgelaufen
90,689 corpus weight
- Abi
Abi
90,688 corpus weight
- Abriss
Abriss
90,687 corpus weight
- Absage
Absage
90,686 corpus weight
- AI
AI
90,685 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „Abi“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
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 | Abi |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈabi] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #9,313 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „Abi“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Abi is neighbouring look-alikes ("an", "am", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈabi]. Frequency #9,313 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Abschlussprüfung an einer höheren Schule, deren erfolgreiche Absolvierung zum Hochschulstudium berechtigt".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Abi, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "an", "am", "AG", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 Abi, spelled A-B-I.
Definition
- 1Abschlussprüfung an einer höheren Schule, deren erfolgreiche Absolvierung zum Hochschulstudium berechtigt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Abi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sie macht nächstes Jahr ihr Abi.
Ich bin durch das Abi gefallen.
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); 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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