abschälen
[ˈapˌʃɛːlən]
The verdict
“abschälen” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - etwas Umhüllendes/Außenliegendes, zum Beispiel eine Haut/Pelle/Rinde, von etwas entfernen
Corpus desk
Index DE-abschalen · abschälen · German
abschälen · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abschälen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈapˌʃɛːlən] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „abschälen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
abschälen is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈapˌʃɛːlən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for abschälen in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is abschälen, spelled A-B-S-C-H-Ä-L-E-N.
Definition
- 1etwas Umhüllendes/Außenliegendes, zum Beispiel eine Haut/Pelle/Rinde, von etwas entfernen
- 2etwas, zum Beispiel eine Haut/Pelle/Rinde, löst sich von etwas ab
- 3etwas, zum Beispiel ein Stück Obst, von seiner Umhüllung befreien
- 4die Oberbekleidung ablegen, sich ausziehen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how abschälen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Oft lässt sich die Rinde der Weide auch ohne Werkzeug abschälen.
Das Abschälen der abgestorbenen oberen Hautzellen regt die Haut zur Regeneration an.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.