Abkürzung
[ˈapˌkʏʁt͡sʊŋ]
The verdict
“Abkürzung” has 14 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #10,027. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,027
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - kürzerer Weg
Corpus desk
Index DE-abkurzung · Abkürzung · German
Abkürzung · rank #10,027 · 14 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,027
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 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 „Abkürzung“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Abgrund
Abgrund
89,976 corpus weight
- abhängen
abhängen
89,975 corpus weight
- Abkürzung
Abkürzung
89,974 corpus weight
- abschaffen
abschaffen
89,973 corpus weight
- absolvierte
absolvierte
89,972 corpus weight
- achtet
achtet
89,971 corpus weight
What this shows „Abkürzung“ 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 | Abkürzung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈapˌkʏʁt͡sʊŋ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #10,027 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Abkürzung“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around Abkürzung (IPA [ˈapˌkʏʁt͡sʊŋ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,027 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for Abkürzung, with forms such as "abbkürzung", "abkkürzung", and "abkrüzung". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Abnutzung", "Abkürzungen", "Abkühlung", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 Abkürzung, spelled A-B-K-Ü-R-Z-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1kürzerer Weg
- 2verkürzte Form eines Wortes oder eines Ausdrucks
- 3nur schriftsprachliche Verkürzung
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Abkürzung appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Weil er eine Abkürzung nahm, war er schneller am Ziel.
„Als Kind war ich den Hang zu Fuß hochgekraxelt, hatte manchmal die Abkürzung über das Feld genommen, den kleinen Trampelpfad, der bei Regen zu einer Schlammpiste wurde.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abbkürzung
- abkkürzung
- abkrüzung
- abkürrzung
- abküruzng
- abkürznug
- abkürzugn
- abkürzungg
- abkürzunng
- abkürzzung
- abküzrung
- abükrzung
- akbürzung
- bakürzung
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Abkürzung - 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 "Abkürzung", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).