Abstandsgebot
[ˈapʃtant͡sɡəˌboːt]
The verdict
“Abstandsgebot” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - dringende Empfehlung oder Vorschrift, sich anderen Personen nicht auf weniger als einer Entfernung von ca. einer Körperlänge zu nähern, um sich und die andere Person vor einer Ansteckung mit einer ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Abstandsgebot |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈapʃtant͡sɡəˌboːt] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Abstandsgebot” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Abstandsgebot is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈapʃtant͡sɡəˌboːt]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for Abstandsgebot in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 Abstandsgebot, spelled A-B-S-T-A-N-D-S-G-E-B-O-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1dringende Empfehlung oder Vorschrift, sich anderen Personen nicht auf weniger als einer Entfernung von ca. einer Körperlänge zu nähern, um sich und die andere Person vor einer Ansteckung mit einer Krankheit zu schützen
- 2ein von manchen Verfassungsrechtlern postuliertes Gebot für den Gesetzgeber, aufgrund des besonderen Schutzes der Ehe in Artikel 6 des deutschen Grundgesetzes andere Partnerschaftsformen nicht zu eheähnlich auszugestalten – also einen „Abstand“ von der Ehe einzuhalten
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- The one correct German spelling is A-B-S-T-A-N-D-S-G-E-B-O-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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