abringen
[ˈapˌʁɪŋən]
The verdict
“abringen” is uncommon German (frequency #93,905 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,905
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - etwas (von jemandem) durch Beharrlichkeit und intensive Bemühung erhalten oder erlangen
Corpus desk
Index DE-abringen · abringen · German
abringen · rank #93,905 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,905
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH ablaufende
Nearest frequency peer: ablaufende (-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 „abringen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- abgespritzt
abgespritzt
6,100 corpus weight
- abies
abies
6,098 corpus weight
- ablaufende
ablaufende
6,097 corpus weight
- abringen
abringen
6,096 corpus weight
- Abuja
Abuja
6,093 corpus weight
- abzubekommen
abzubekommen
6,092 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „abringen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abringen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈapˌʁɪŋən] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #93,905 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „abringen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
abringen is uncommon German at frequency #93,905 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈapˌʁɪŋən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for abringen, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is abringen, spelled A-B-R-I-N-G-E-N.
Definition
- 1etwas (von jemandem) durch Beharrlichkeit und intensive Bemühung erhalten oder erlangen
- 2sich zwingen, etwas zu sagen oder zu tun
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how abringen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Wie lange werden Atommeiler noch laufen, welche Zugeständnisse wird Schwarz-Gelb den Stromversorgern abringen?
Einzig ein formales Zugeständnis ließ der Minister sich abringen, das die faktische Machtlosigkeit des Parlamentes allerdings nur notdürftig kaschiert: Bis zu einer Unterhausdebatte über das Schicksal der boat people soll die Deportation gestoppt werden.
Synonyms
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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