Abstützung
[ˈapˌʃtʏt͡sʊŋ]
The verdict
“Abstützung” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. 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) - Sicherung gegen Herabfallen oder Umfallen
Corpus desk
Index DE-abstutzung · Abstützung · German
Abstützung · 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 | Abstützung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈapˌʃtʏt͡sʊŋ] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Abstützung“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Abstützung is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈapˌʃtʏt͡sʊŋ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Abstützung in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 Abstützung, spelled A-B-S-T-Ü-T-Z-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1Sicherung gegen Herabfallen oder Umfallen
- 2etwas, das zum Abstützen [1] dient
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Abstützung appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Mittels Fußbettanpassung, Entlastungszonen, gezielter Abstützung und Polsterung wird die Druckbelastung optimal verteilt.“
„Die Verkleidungsteile der Türen fahren zur besseren Abstützung heraus und die Sitze bewegen sich in eine optimale Position um einen Crash möglichst unversehrt zu überstehen.“
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.