Abscheu
[ˈapˌʃɔɪ̯]
The verdict
“Abscheu” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #35,599. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,599
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine starke Abneigung gegen jemanden oder etwas
Corpus desk
Index DE-abscheu · Abscheu · German
Abscheu · rank #35,599 · 10 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,599
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH ableitet
Nearest frequency peer: ableitet (-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 „Abscheu“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- abgesegnet
abgesegnet
64,405 corpus weight
- abgewogen
abgewogen
64,404 corpus weight
- ableitet
ableitet
64,403 corpus weight
- Abscheu
Abscheu
64,402 corpus weight
- Abschlag
Abschlag
64,401 corpus weight
- abschleppen
abschleppen
64,400 corpus weight
What this shows „Abscheu“ 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 | Abscheu |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈapˌʃɔɪ̯] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #35,599 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Abscheu“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Abscheu (IPA [ˈapˌʃɔɪ̯]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,599 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "eine starke Abneigung gegen jemanden oder etwas".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Abscheu, with forms such as "abbscheu", "abcsheu", and "absccheu". 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, "Asche", "Ärsche", "absehen", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Abscheu, spelled A-B-S-C-H-E-U.
Definition
- 1eine starke Abneigung gegen jemanden oder etwas
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Abscheu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Viele Menschen haben starke Abscheu vor Haferschleim.
„Aber er hatte die Kraft ihres Abscheus unterschätzt.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abbscheu
- abcsheu
- absccheu
- abscehu
- abschheu
- abschue
- abshceu
- absscheu
- asbcheu
- bascheu
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Abscheu - 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 "Abscheu", 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).