abstottern
[ˈapˌʃtɔtɐn]
The verdict
“abstottern” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - einen Kredit in kleinen Raten zurückzahlen
Corpus desk
Index DE-abstottern · abstottern · German
abstottern · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abstottern |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈapˌʃtɔtɐn] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „abstottern“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
abstottern is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈapˌʃtɔtɐn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for abstottern, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is abstottern, spelled A-B-S-T-O-T-T-E-R-N.
Definition
- 1einen Kredit in kleinen Raten zurückzahlen
- 2über einen längeren Zeitraum hinweg in (kleineren) Teilbeträgen bezahlen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how abstottern appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Schulden, die ich gemacht habe, stottere ich mühsam ab.
Nachdem ich sie zwanzig Jahre abgestottert habe, ist die Hypothek auf meinem Haus endlich getilgt.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.