Abseilen
[ˈapˌzaɪ̯lən]
The verdict
“Abseilen” is uncommon German (frequency #59,402 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,402
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abstieg einer Person von einem Berg, Fels oder einer anderen Anhöhe mit Hilfe eines Seils
Corpus desk
Index DE-abseilen · Abseilen · German
Abseilen · rank #59,402 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,402
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH abschwächen
Nearest frequency peer: abschwächen (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Abseilen”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- abnehmenden
abnehmenden
40,602 corpus weight
- Abschiedsge…
Abschiedsgeschenk
40,601 corpus weight
- abschwächen
abschwächen
40,600 corpus weight
- Abseilen
Abseilen
40,599 corpus weight
- abzeichnen
abzeichnen
40,598 corpus weight
- Achmed
Achmed
40,597 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Abseilen” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Abseilen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈapˌzaɪ̯lən] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #59,402 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Abseilen” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Abseilen is uncommon German at frequency #59,402 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈapˌzaɪ̯lən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Abstieg einer Person von einem Berg, Fels oder einer anderen Anhöhe mit Hilfe eines Seils".
Abseilen has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 Abseilen, spelled A-B-S-E-I-L-E-N.
Definition
- 1Abstieg einer Person von einem Berg, Fels oder einer anderen Anhöhe mit Hilfe eines Seils
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Abseilen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Zum Abseilen ist ein Fixpunkt notwendig, der absolut zuverlässig sein muss. Häufig werden daher mehrere Fixpunkte, z.B. zwei Haken verwendet.
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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