Absturz
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,162
in German word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
Absturz is aGermannoun. It means: das Herabstürzen von Personen oder Gegenständen; ein Unfall Pronounced [ˈapˌʃtʊʁt͡s]. It ranks #8,162 in German word frequency. Often confused with absurd and Ansturm.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Absturz |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈapˌʃtʊʁt͡s] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #8,162 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Absturz is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈapˌʃtʊʁt͡s]. Corpus data places it at rank #8,162 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Absturz, with forms such as "abbsturz", "abssturz", and "abstruz". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "absurd", "Ansturm", "abstürzen", 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 Absturz, spelled A-B-S-T-U-R-Z, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1das Herabstürzen von Personen oder Gegenständen; ein Unfall
- 2steiler Abhang
- 3unkontrollierte rasche Abwärtsbewegung, wie das Abstürzen in eine Krise
- 4Stillstand in Folge eines schwerwiegenden Programm- oder Hardwarefehlers
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abbsturz,abssturz,abstruz,abstturz,absturrz,absturzz,abstuzr,absutrz,abtsurz,asbturz,basturz
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Misspelling Variants of "Absturz"
Frequency rank: #8,162 in German
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