abtragen
[ˈapˌtʁaːɡn̩]
The verdict
“abtragen” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #49,443. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,443
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - schichtweise entfernen
Corpus desk
Index DE-abtragen · abtragen · German
abtragen · rank #49,443 · 12 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,443
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH Abstufung
Nearest frequency peer: Abstufung (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „abtragen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- ablehnten
ablehnten
50,561 corpus weight
- Abonnent
Abonnent
50,560 corpus weight
- Abstufung
Abstufung
50,559 corpus weight
- abtragen
abtragen
50,558 corpus weight
- Abweisung
Abweisung
50,557 corpus weight
- abzeichnet
abzeichnet
50,556 corpus weight
What this shows „abtragen“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abtragen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈapˌtʁaːɡn̩] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #49,443 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „abtragen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around abtragen (IPA [ˈapˌtʁaːɡn̩]), averb. Corpus frequency is #49,443 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for abtragen, with forms such as "abbtragen", "abrtagen", and "abtargen". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "Anträge", "abwägen", "Anfragen", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented 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 abtragen, spelled A-B-T-R-A-G-E-N.
Definition
- 1schichtweise entfernen
- 2Kleidung so lange benutzen, bis sie kaputt ist
- 3bezahlen
- 4das Geschirr vom Tisch räumen
- 5operativ entfernen
- 6Strecke auf Gerade festlegen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how abtragen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Restauratorin trägt sehr vorsichtig die obersten Farbschichten ab.
Wegen der Kontamination muss das gesamte Erdreich abgetragen werden.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abbtragen
- abrtagen
- abtargen
- abtraegn
- abtragenn
- abtraggen
- abtragne
- abtrgaen
- abtrragen
- abttragen
- atbragen
- batragen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of abtragen - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "abtragen", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).