abstellen
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#12,221
in German word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
abstellen is aGermanverb. It means: aus der Hand legen und auf einer Fläche platzieren Pronounced [ˈapˌʃtɛlən]. Often confused with anstelle and anstellen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abstellen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈapˌʃtɛlən] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #12,221 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for abstellen is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈapˌʃtɛlən]. Corpus data places it at rank #12,221 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for abstellen, with forms such as "abbstellen", "absetllen", and "absstellen". 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, "anstelle", "anstellen", "absterben", 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 abstellen, spelled A-B-S-T-E-L-L-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1aus der Hand legen und auf einer Fläche platzieren
- 2dafür sorgen, dass eine Handlung unterbleibt
- 3den aktiven Zustand beenden und außer Betrieb setzen
- 4parken
- 5von der üblichen Arbeit freistellen und einer anderen Aufgabe zuweisen
- 6(sich) auf etwas oder jemanden beziehen, danach ausrichten
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abbstellen,absetllen,absstellen,absteleln,abstelen,abstellenn,abstellne,abstlelen,absttellen,abtsellen,asbtellen,bastellen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for abstellen
Misspelling Variants of "abstellen"
Frequency rank: #12,221 in German
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