abstumpfen
Letters
10 characters
Language
German
word origin
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0
tracked variants
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abstumpfen is aGermanverb. It means: etwas stumpf machen, beispielsweise eine Kante oder einen Weg im Winter bei Glätte durch Streuen von Sand; (von alleine) seine Schärfe verlieren/stumpf werden, beispielsweise durch Gebrauch Pronounced [ˈapˌʃtʊmp͡fn̩].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abstumpfen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈapˌʃtʊmp͡fn̩] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for abstumpfen is 10 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈapˌʃtʊmp͡fn̩]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for abstumpfen in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns.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 abstumpfen, spelled A-B-S-T-U-M-P-F-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1etwas stumpf machen, beispielsweise eine Kante oder einen Weg im Winter bei Glätte durch Streuen von Sand; (von alleine) seine Schärfe verlieren/stumpf werden, beispielsweise durch Gebrauch
- 2unempfindlich, gleichgültig, emotionslos werden
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