Abortus
[aˈbɔʁtʊs]
The verdict
“Abortus” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - vorzeitige Beendigung der Schwangerschaft durch Ausstoßung und/oder Absterben einer unter 500 Gramm wiegenden Frucht
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Abortus |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aˈbɔʁtʊs] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Abortus” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Abortus is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aˈbɔʁtʊs]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "vorzeitige Beendigung der Schwangerschaft durch Ausstoßung und/oder Absterben einer unter 500 Gramm wiegenden Frucht".
Abortus has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Abortus, spelled A-B-O-R-T-U-S.
Definition
- 1vorzeitige Beendigung der Schwangerschaft durch Ausstoßung und/oder Absterben einer unter 500 Gramm wiegenden Frucht
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Abortus”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is A-B-O-R-T-U-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [aˈbɔʁtʊs] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.