Abschaltung
[ˈapˌʃaltʊŋ]
The verdict
“Abschaltung” has 18 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #28,979. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,979
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - die Handlung des Abschaltens; Unterbrechung des elektrischen Stroms
Corpus desk
Index DE-abschaltung · Abschaltung · German
Abschaltung · rank #28,979 · 18 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,979
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH abhält
Nearest frequency peer: abhält (-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 „Abschaltung“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- abgewendet
abgewendet
71,025 corpus weight
- abgeändert
abgeändert
71,024 corpus weight
- abhält
abhält
71,023 corpus weight
- Abschaltung
Abschaltung
71,022 corpus weight
- Abstinenz
Abstinenz
71,021 corpus weight
- Abtretung
Abtretung
71,020 corpus weight
What this shows „Abschaltung“ 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 | Abschaltung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈapˌʃaltʊŋ] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #28,979 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Abschaltung“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around Abschaltung (IPA [ˈapˌʃaltʊŋ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,979 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "die Handlung des Abschaltens; Unterbrechung des elektrischen Stroms".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for Abschaltung, with forms such as "abbschaltung", "abcshaltung", and "abscahltung". 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, "Abspaltung", "Abschottung", "Abschätzung", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Abschaltung, spelled A-B-S-C-H-A-L-T-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1die Handlung des Abschaltens; Unterbrechung des elektrischen Stroms
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Abschaltung appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Abschaltung dieses Gerätes hätte verheerende Folgen.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abbschaltung
- abcshaltung
- abscahltung
- abscchaltung
- abschalltung
- abschaltnug
- abschalttung
- abschaltugn
- abschaltungg
- abschaltunng
- abschalutng
- abschatlung
- abschhaltung
- abschlatung
- abshcaltung
- absschaltung
- asbchaltung
- baschaltung
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Abschaltung - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "Abschaltung", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).