Abitur
[ˌabiˈtuːɐ̯]
The verdict
“Abitur” has 8 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #4,585. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,585
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abschlussprüfung an einer höheren Schule
Corpus desk
Index DE-abitur · Abitur · German
Abitur · rank #4,585 · 8 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,585
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH Übung
Nearest frequency peer: Übung (-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 „Abitur“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- übersehen
übersehen
95,419 corpus weight
- Übertragung
Übertragung
95,418 corpus weight
- Übung
Übung
95,417 corpus weight
- Abitur
Abitur
95,416 corpus weight
- Akten
Akten
95,415 corpus weight
- akzeptiert
akzeptiert
95,414 corpus weight
What this shows „Abitur“ 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 | Abitur |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˌabiˈtuːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #4,585 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Abitur“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Abitur (IPA [ˌabiˈtuːɐ̯]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,585 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Abitur, with forms such as "abbitur", "abitru", and "abittur". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Artur", "abtun", "Absturz", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Abitur, spelled A-B-I-T-U-R.
Definition
- 1Abschlussprüfung an einer höheren Schule
- 2höchster allgemeinbildender Schulabschluss, der zum Hochschulstudium berechtigt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Abitur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Klaus hat sein Abitur gerade so geschafft.
„Mario wollte Abitur oder mindestens eine Lehrstelle als Kfz-Mechaniker, aber plötzlich blühte ihm eine Karriere als Betonbauer, Zerspaner oder Facharbeiter für Umformtechnik.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abbitur
- abitru
- abittur
- abiturr
- abiutr
- abtiur
- aibtur
- baitur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Abitur - 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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Abitur", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).