ablehnen
[ˈapˌleːnən]
The verdict
“ablehnen” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #7,856. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,856
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - zu etwas nein sagen; etwas zurückweisen oder missbilligen
Corpus desk
Index DE-ablehnen · ablehnen · German
ablehnen · rank #7,856 · 12 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,856
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH zocken
Nearest frequency peer: zocken (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “ablehnen”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- wähle
wähle
92,148 corpus weight
- Wälder
Wälder
92,147 corpus weight
- zocken
zocken
92,146 corpus weight
- ablehnen
ablehnen
92,145 corpus weight
- abstimmen
abstimmen
92,144 corpus weight
- anfängt
anfängt
92,143 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “ablehnen” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | ablehnen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈapˌleːnən] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #7,856 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “ablehnen” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around ablehnen (IPA [ˈapˌleːnən]), averb. Corpus frequency is #7,856 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "zu etwas nein sagen; etwas zurückweisen oder missbilligen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for ablehnen, with forms such as "abblehnen", "abelhnen", and "ablehenn". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "ablesen", "ablehnt", "absehen", and more, 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 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 ablehnen, spelled A-B-L-E-H-N-E-N.
Definition
- 1zu etwas nein sagen; etwas zurückweisen oder missbilligen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ablehnen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Er lehnte den Vorschlag schlichtweg ab.
„Viele Umweltverbände lehnen Klimakompensation ab.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abblehnen
- abelhnen
- ablehenn
- ablehhnen
- ablehnenn
- ablehnne
- ablehnnen
- ablenhen
- ablhenen
- abllehnen
- albehnen
- balehnen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ablehnen - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "ablehnen", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
You've looked up "ablehnen". Here's where to go from here.
- "ablehnen" maps to 18 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "ablesen". View pair
- 12 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #7,856 among German headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more German words in the "A" letter cohort. A–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
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.