abtauen
Letters
7 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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abtauen is aGermanverb. It means: durch Ausgesetztsein einer Wärmequelle [oder aufgrund des Fehlens einer Möglichkeit, neues Eis durch Kühlung zu bilden] nach und nach frei von Eis werden Pronounced [ˈapˌtaʊ̯ən].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abtauen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈapˌtaʊ̯ən] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for abtauen is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈapˌtaʊ̯ən]. 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 abtauen 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 abtauen, spelled A-B-T-A-U-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1durch Ausgesetztsein einer Wärmequelle [oder aufgrund des Fehlens einer Möglichkeit, neues Eis durch Kühlung zu bilden] nach und nach frei von Eis werden
- 2einer Wärmequelle aussetzen [oder das Fehlen einer Möglichkeit, neues Eis durch Kühlung zu bilden, bewirken] und so nach und nach frei von Eis machen
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