Ablaufdatum
[ˈaplaʊ̯fˌdaːtʊm]
The verdict
“Ablaufdatum” is uncommon German (frequency #53,430 among 113,935 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,430
- frequency rank, German
- 113,935
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Datum, über das hinaus etwas, besonders ein Lebensmittel, nicht mehr genießbar oder nicht mehr verwendbar ist
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ablaufdatum |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈaplaʊ̯fˌdaːtʊm] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #53,430 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Ablaufdatum” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Ablaufdatum is uncommon German at frequency #53,430 among 113,935 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈaplaʊ̯fˌdaːtʊm]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Datum, über das hinaus etwas, besonders ein Lebensmittel, nicht mehr genießbar oder nicht mehr verwendbar ist".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Ablaufdatum, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 Ablaufdatum, spelled A-B-L-A-U-F-D-A-T-U-M.
Definition
- 1Datum, über das hinaus etwas, besonders ein Lebensmittel, nicht mehr genießbar oder nicht mehr verwendbar ist
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 “Ablaufdatum”
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- The one correct German spelling is A-B-L-A-U-F-D-A-T-U-M - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.