absagen
[ˈapˌzaːɡn̩]
The verdict
“absagen” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #10,793. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,793
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - etwas Angekündigtes widerrufen, eine Veranstaltung oder sonstiges nicht stattfinden lassen
Corpus desk
Index DE-absagen · absagen · German
absagen · rank #10,793 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,793
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH Abschnitte
Nearest frequency peer: Abschnitte (+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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „absagen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- überdies
überdies
89,211 corpus weight
- Überlebenden
Überlebenden
89,210 corpus weight
- absagen
absagen
89,208 corpus weight
- Abschnitte
Abschnitte
89,207 corpus weight
- absolutes
absolutes
89,206 corpus weight
- Absolventen
Absolventen
89,205 corpus weight
What this shows „absagen“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
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 | absagen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈapˌzaːɡn̩] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #10,793 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „absagen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around absagen (IPA [ˈapˌzaːɡn̩]), averb. Corpus frequency is #10,793 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "etwas Angekündigtes widerrufen, eine Veranstaltung oder sonstiges nicht stattfinden lassen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for absagen, with forms such as "abasgen", "abbsagen", and "absaegn". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Ansage", "Anlagen", "ansagen", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is absagen, spelled A-B-S-A-G-E-N.
Definition
- 1etwas Angekündigtes widerrufen, eine Veranstaltung oder sonstiges nicht stattfinden lassen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how absagen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die angekündigte Party wurde abgesagt.
„Die Chemnitzer Linux-Tage am kommenden Wochenende wurden aufgrund der aktuellen Entwicklungen bzgl. COVID-19/Corona kurzfristig abgesagt.“
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abasgen
- abbsagen
- absaegn
- absagenn
- absaggen
- absagne
- absgaen
- abssagen
- asbagen
- basagen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of absagen - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "absagen", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).