absteigen
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#19,112
in German word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
absteigen is aGermanverb. It means: an Höhe verlieren, nach unten verlaufen, einen abschüssigen Verlauf nehmen Pronounced [ˈapˌʃtaɪ̯ɡn̩]. Often confused with abstellen and ansteigen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | absteigen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈapˌʃtaɪ̯ɡn̩] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #19,112 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for absteigen is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈapˌʃtaɪ̯ɡn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #19,112 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 absteigen, with forms such as "abbsteigen", "absetigen", and "abssteigen". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "abstellen", "ansteigen", "Absteiger", 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 absteigen, spelled A-B-S-T-E-I-G-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1an Höhe verlieren, nach unten verlaufen, einen abschüssigen Verlauf nehmen
- 2einen abschüssigen Weg begehen
- 3sein soziales Niveau verlieren
- 4aus seiner Liga, seinem Leistungsniveau herausfallen
- 5irgendwo einkehren
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abbsteigen,absetigen,abssteigen,abstegien,absteiegn,absteigenn,absteiggen,absteigne,abstiegen,abstteigen,abtseigen,asbteigen,basteigen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for absteigen
Misspelling Variants of "absteigen"
Frequency rank: #19,112 in German
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