abstreifen
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#83,621
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
abstreifen is aGermanverb. It means: etwas von irgendwo mit einer gleichmäßigen Bewegung ablösen (Kleidungsstücke vom Körper, Beeren von den Stielen, Schmutz von einer Oberfläche oder Ähnliches) Pronounced [ˈapˌʃtʁaɪ̯fn̩].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abstreifen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈapˌʃtʁaɪ̯fn̩] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #83,621 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for abstreifen is 10 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈapˌʃtʁaɪ̯fn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #83,621 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.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for abstreifen in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 abstreifen, spelled A-B-S-T-R-E-I-F-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1etwas von irgendwo mit einer gleichmäßigen Bewegung ablösen (Kleidungsstücke vom Körper, Beeren von den Stielen, Schmutz von einer Oberfläche oder Ähnliches)
- 2sich von etwas befreien, lösen (zum Beispiel von einem bestimmten Image, von einem Vorurteil oder einer Last)
- 3mehr oder weniger systematisch ein Gebiet begehen, absuchen
- 4seine Schuhsohlen an einem Fußabtreter, Gitterrost reinigen
- 5von einer eingeschlagenen Richtung etwas abweichen (ohne konkretes Ziel)
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #83,621 in German
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