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Abschleppwagen

German, noun

Abschleppwagen is spelled A-B-S-C-H-L-E-P-P-W-A-G-E-N (14 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 75,468th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Abschleppwagen is a German masculine noun meaning “tow truck” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an umlaut, Abschleppwägen is a different word: “plural of Abschleppwagen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Gefährt, mit dem andere Kraftfahrzeuge bewegt werden können, die entweder selbst nicht fahrtauglich sind oder…”.

What does Abschleppwagen mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinetow truck

noun

as Abschleppwägen
  1. 1

    masculineplural of Abschleppwagen

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Gefährt, mit dem andere Kraftfahrzeuge bewegt werden können, die entweder selbst nicht fahrtauglich sind oder ordnungswidrig abgestellt wurden

The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.

Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of Abschleppwagen

  • Abschleppwagens genitive
  • Abschleppwägen nominative plural

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How common is Abschleppwagen in German?

Abschleppwagen appears about once in every 3 million words in written German.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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