abspielen
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#16,621
in German word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
abspielen is aGermanverb. It means: ein Spielgerät ins Spiel geben, an einen Mitspieler weitergeben, ihm zuspielen Pronounced [ˈapˌʃpiːlən]. Often confused with abspielt and abzielen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abspielen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈapˌʃpiːlən] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #16,621 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for abspielen is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈapˌʃpiːlən]. Corpus data places it at rank #16,621 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for abspielen, with forms such as "abbspielen", "abpsielen", and "absipelen". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "abspielt", "abzielen", "anspielen", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is abspielen, spelled A-B-S-P-I-E-L-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ein Spielgerät ins Spiel geben, an einen Mitspieler weitergeben, ihm zuspielen
- 2ein (dramatisches) Ereignis vollzieht sich, nimmt seinen Lauf
- 3eine DVD, einen Film, ein Tonband, ein Video durch ein Gerät wiedergeben
- 4Notenvorgaben ablesen und in Klangfolgen umsetzen
- 5einen Spielvorgang bis zum Ende führen
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abbspielen,abpsielen,absipelen,abspeilen,abspieeln,abspielenn,abspiellen,abspielne,abspileen,absppielen,absspielen,asbpielen,baspielen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for abspielen
Misspelling Variants of "abspielen"
Frequency rank: #16,621 in German
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Nearby German words
Other entries that begin with the letter A in our German index: