abschaffen
[ˈapˌʃafn̩]
The verdict
“abschaffen” has 14 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #10,028. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,028
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - etwas entfernen, außer Kraft setzen, beseitigen
Corpus desk
Index DE-abschaffen · abschaffen · German
abschaffen · rank #10,028 · 14 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,028
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH Abkürzung
Nearest frequency peer: Abkürzung (-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 „abschaffen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Abgrund
Abgrund
89,976 corpus weight
- abhängen
abhängen
89,975 corpus weight
- Abkürzung
Abkürzung
89,974 corpus weight
- abschaffen
abschaffen
89,973 corpus weight
- absolvierte
absolvierte
89,972 corpus weight
- achtet
achtet
89,971 corpus weight
What this shows „abschaffen“ 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 | abschaffen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈapˌʃafn̩] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #10,028 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „abschaffen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around abschaffen (IPA [ˈapˌʃafn̩]), averb. Corpus frequency is #10,028 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "etwas entfernen, außer Kraft setzen, beseitigen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for abschaffen, with forms such as "abbschaffen", "abcshaffen", and "abscahffen". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "abschalten", "anschaffen", "abschätzen", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is abschaffen, spelled A-B-S-C-H-A-F-F-E-N.
Definition
- 1etwas entfernen, außer Kraft setzen, beseitigen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how abschaffen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Todesstrafe wurde in Deutschland bereits abgeschafft.
Wieder sind die Kita-Gebühren in der Diskussion: Wäre es gerecht, sie ganz abzuschaffen?
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abbschaffen
- abcshaffen
- abscahffen
- abscchaffen
- abschafefn
- abschafen
- abschaffenn
- abschaffne
- abschfafen
- abschhaffen
- abshcaffen
- absschaffen
- asbchaffen
- baschaffen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of abschaffen - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "abschaffen", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).