Abstumpfung
[ˈapˌʃtʊmp͡fʊŋ]
The verdict
“Abstumpfung” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - die Tätigkeit, etwas stumpf zu machen
Corpus desk
Index DE-abstumpfung · Abstumpfung · German
Abstumpfung · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 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 | Abstumpfung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈapˌʃtʊmp͡fʊŋ] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Abstumpfung“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Abstumpfung is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈapˌʃtʊmp͡fʊŋ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Abstumpfung doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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. The correct German form is Abstumpfung, spelled A-B-S-T-U-M-P-F-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1die Tätigkeit, etwas stumpf zu machen
- 2der Vorgang, bei dem etwas stumpf wird
- 3übertragenen, von Gefühlen: Entwicklung dazu, weniger empfindlich zu sein, durch intensive Konfrontation
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Abstumpfung appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Er war gerade mit der Abstumpfung der Außenteile beschäftigt.
Während an den 111-Flächen in reiner NaCl-Lösung die zunächst nach dem Polieren vorhandenen Abstumpfungen der Würfelpyramiden verschwinden und scharfe Ecken entstehen – wie auch theoretisch zu erwarten –, zeigt ein Parallelversuch unter Zugabe von Harnstoff, daß die ursprünglichen Abstumpfungen größer werden und schließlich zu einer glatten 111-Fläche zus…
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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.