ablecken
[ˈapˌlɛkn̩]
The verdict
“ablecken” is uncommon German (frequency #63,994 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,994
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mit der Zunge säubern, etwas entfernen
Corpus desk
Index DE-ablecken · ablecken · German
ablecken · rank #63,994 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,994
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH Abkömmling
Nearest frequency peer: Abkömmling (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „ablecken“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Abgrenzungen
Abgrenzungen
36,009 corpus weight
- Abkömmling
Abkömmling
36,008 corpus weight
- ablecken
ablecken
36,007 corpus weight
- abrieb
abrieb
36,006 corpus weight
- abspeichern
abspeichern
36,004 corpus weight
- Abstrich
Abstrich
36,003 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „ablecken“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ablecken |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈapˌlɛkn̩] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #63,994 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „ablecken“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
ablecken is uncommon German at frequency #63,994 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈapˌlɛkn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "mit der Zunge säubern, etwas entfernen".
Zero misspellings are on record for ablecken in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 ablecken, spelled A-B-L-E-C-K-E-N.
Definition
- 1mit der Zunge säubern, etwas entfernen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ablecken appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Es war im Camp üblich, den Löffel, mit dem man gegessen hatte, nach der Mahlzeit abzulecken und wieder einzustecken.
Wenn ich der Kuh meine Hand hinhalte, leckt sie die Finger ab.
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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