Absteiger
[ˈapˌʃtaɪ̯ɡɐ]
The verdict
“Absteiger” has 13 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #18,786. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,786
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - jemand, dessen gesellschaftliches, berufliches Ansehen abgenommen hat oder auf dem Wege ist, abzunehmen
Corpus desk
Index DE-absteiger · Absteiger · German
Absteiger · rank #18,786 · 13 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,786
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH Abhandlung
Nearest frequency peer: Abhandlung (-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 „Absteiger“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Abfluss
Abfluss
81,218 corpus weight
- abgespielt
abgespielt
81,217 corpus weight
- Abhandlung
Abhandlung
81,216 corpus weight
- Absteiger
Absteiger
81,215 corpus weight
- Abstimmungen
Abstimmungen
81,214 corpus weight
- abstrakten
abstrakten
81,213 corpus weight
What this shows „Absteiger“ 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 | Absteiger |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈapˌʃtaɪ̯ɡɐ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #18,786 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Absteiger“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Absteiger (IPA [ˈapˌʃtaɪ̯ɡɐ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,786 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Absteiger, with forms such as "abbsteiger", "absetiger", and "abssteiger". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "ansteigen", "Aufsteiger", "Aussteiger", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Absteiger, spelled A-B-S-T-E-I-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1jemand, dessen gesellschaftliches, berufliches Ansehen abgenommen hat oder auf dem Wege ist, abzunehmen
- 2Mannschaft oder Einzelsportler, die/der aufgrund der erbrachten Leistungen, erzielten Ergebnisse (am Ende der Spielsaison) in die nächsttiefere Spielklasse zurückgestuft wird
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Absteiger appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mein Arbeitskollege ist der totale Absteiger, letztes Jahr noch Vorstandsmitglied und heute nur noch Büroarbeiter.
Der Absteiger in der Bundesliga in dem Jahr hieß Schalke 04.
Antonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abbsteiger
- absetiger
- abssteiger
- abstegier
- absteiegr
- absteigerr
- absteigger
- absteigre
- abstieger
- abstteiger
- abtseiger
- asbteiger
- basteiger
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Absteiger - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "Absteiger", 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).