absentieren
[apz̥ɛnˈtiːʁən]
The verdict
“absentieren” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sich von einem Ort wegbewegen
Corpus desk
Index DE-absentieren · absentieren · German
absentieren · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 | absentieren |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [apz̥ɛnˈtiːʁən] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „absentieren“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
absentieren is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [apz̥ɛnˈtiːʁən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "sich von einem Ort wegbewegen".
No misspelling variants are generated for absentieren in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 absentieren, spelled A-B-S-E-N-T-I-E-R-E-N.
Definition
- 1sich von einem Ort wegbewegen
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how absentieren appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Er absentierte sich von der Gesellschaft.
Synonyms
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.