abstauben
[ˈapˌʃtaʊ̯bn̩]
The verdict
“abstauben” has 13 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #47,918. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,918
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Staub von etwas entfernen, etwas von Staub reinigen
Corpus desk
Index DE-abstauben · abstauben · German
abstauben · rank #47,918 · 13 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,918
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH abstatten
Nearest frequency peer: abstatten (-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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „abstauben“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Abmachungen
Abmachungen
52,087 corpus weight
- Abonnements
Abonnements
52,086 corpus weight
- abschlagen
abschlagen
52,085 corpus weight
- abstatten
abstatten
52,084 corpus weight
- abstauben
abstauben
52,083 corpus weight
- across
across
52,080 corpus weight
What this shows „abstauben“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abstauben |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈapˌʃtaʊ̯bn̩] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #47,918 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „abstauben“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around abstauben (IPA [ˈapˌʃtaʊ̯bn̩]), averb. Corpus frequency is #47,918 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for abstauben, with forms such as "abbstauben", "absatuben", and "absstauben". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "ausrauben", "absterben", "absaugen", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is abstauben, spelled A-B-S-T-A-U-B-E-N.
Definition
- 1Staub von etwas entfernen, etwas von Staub reinigen
- 2sich etwas ohne Gegenleistung (durch Glück, Schenkung, Betteln, illegal, durch Ausnutzung anderer zu ihrem Nachteil und so weiter) aneignen
- 3jemanden ausschimpfen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how abstauben appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Das unklare Bild des Ingenieurs wird abgestaubt, der Glanz darunter sichtbarer.“
„Die Akademie der Wissenschaften degenerierte in dieser Zeit zu einem reinen Improvisationsersatz der Industrie – bis hin zu ihrer Verwendung als Kassiberdeuter für das Ministerium für Staatssicherheit, das zum Beispiel den Wert von Software begutachten ließ, die im kapitalistischen Westen abgestaubt worden war.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abbstauben
- absatuben
- absstauben
- abstabuen
- abstaubben
- abstaubenn
- abstaubne
- abstauebn
- absttauben
- abstuaben
- abtsauben
- asbtauben
- bastauben
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of abstauben - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "abstauben", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).