Abspielgerät
[ˈapʃpiːlɡəˌʁɛːt]
The verdict
“Abspielgerät” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gerät zur Wiedergabe von Bild- oder Tonträgern
Corpus desk
Index DE-abspielgerat · Abspielgerät · German
Abspielgerät · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 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 | Abspielgerät |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈapʃpiːlɡəˌʁɛːt] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Abspielgerät“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Abspielgerät is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈapʃpiːlɡəˌʁɛːt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Gerät zur Wiedergabe von Bild- oder Tonträgern".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Abspielgerät, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Abspielgerät, spelled A-B-S-P-I-E-L-G-E-R-Ä-T.
Definition
- 1Gerät zur Wiedergabe von Bild- oder Tonträgern
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Abspielgerät appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Rund ein Drittel der Menschen hierzulande (34 Prozent) hört einer Yougov-Umfrage zufolge Podcasts, knapp jeder Achte davon (13 Prozent) täglich. Das Smartphone ist dabei das beliebteste Abspielgerät.“
„Er hatte ein Abspielgerät unter dem Arm und schloss es nun an den Monitor an, der auf dem Nebentisch stand.“
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.