Absatz
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,226
in German word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
Absatz is aGermannoun. It means: neben der Beschaffung und der Produktion die dritte grundlegende betriebliche Funktion; umfasst alle betrieblichen Maßnahmen, die der Veräußerung und dem Verkauf der produzierten Güter dienen Pronounced [ˈapˌzat͡s]. It ranks #3,226 in German word frequency. Often confused with Ansatz and Ansätze.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Absatz |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈapˌzat͡s] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,226 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Absatz is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈapˌzat͡s]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,226 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for Absatz, with forms such as "abastz", "abbsatz", and "absattz". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "Ansatz", "Ansätze", "Aufsatz", 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 Absatz, spelled A-B-S-A-T-Z, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1neben der Beschaffung und der Produktion die dritte grundlegende betriebliche Funktion; umfasst alle betrieblichen Maßnahmen, die der Veräußerung und dem Verkauf der produzierten Güter dienen
- 2der Prozess des Verkaufens oder Absetzens
- 3die Unterbrechung eines fortlaufenden Textes durch den Neubeginn in einer neuen Zeile oder in einem ganz neuen Abschnitt
- 4der erhöhte Teil der Schuhsohle am hinteren Schuhende
- 5der Absatz einer Treppe
- 6die Ablagerung von Sedimentgesteinen
- 7Teil eines Textes mit zusammengehörendem Inhalt, der durch eine neue Zeile und/oder Einrückung grafisch markiert ist
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abastz,abbsatz,absattz,absatzz,absazt,abssatz,abstaz,asbatz,basatz
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "Absatz"
Frequency rank: #3,226 in German
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