ableiten
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#13,299
in German word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
13
similar word pairs
ableiten is aGermanverb. It means: etwas abzweigen lassen, abführen Pronounced [ˈapˌlaɪ̯tn̩]. Often confused with ablesen and arbeiten.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ableiten |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈapˌlaɪ̯tn̩] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #13,299 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for ableiten is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈapˌlaɪ̯tn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #13,299 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for ableiten, with forms such as "abbleiten", "abeliten", and "ableietn". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "ablesen", "arbeiten", "Anleihen", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is ableiten, spelled A-B-L-E-I-T-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1etwas abzweigen lassen, abführen
- 2die Ableitung einer Funktion ermitteln
- 3Strom an die Erde abführen
- 4aus einem Wort durch Hinzufügen eines Ableitungsmorphems (Derivatems) oder durch Veränderung des Wortes selbst ein neues Wort entwickeln
- 5etwas (etwa eine Vermutung) von etwas Anderem herleiten, um es zu beweisen oder zu erklären
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abbleiten,abeliten,ableietn,ableitenn,ableitne,ableitten,abletien,ablieten,ablleiten,albeiten,baleiten
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ableiten
Misspelling Variants of "ableiten"
Frequency rank: #13,299 in German
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