Abuja
[aˈbuːd͡ʒa]
The verdict
“Abuja” is uncommon German (frequency #93,908 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,908
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hauptstadt von Nigeria
Corpus desk
Index DE-abuja · Abuja · German
Abuja · rank #93,908 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,908
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH abzubekommen
Nearest frequency peer: abzubekommen (+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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Abuja“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- ablaufende
ablaufende
6,097 corpus weight
- abringen
abringen
6,096 corpus weight
- Abuja
Abuja
6,093 corpus weight
- abzubekommen
abzubekommen
6,092 corpus weight
- abzureisen
abzureisen
6,091 corpus weight
- abzuschirmen
abzuschirmen
6,090 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Abuja“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Abuja |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [aˈbuːd͡ʒa] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #93,908 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Abuja“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Abuja is uncommon German at frequency #93,908 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [aˈbuːd͡ʒa]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Hauptstadt von Nigeria".
Zero misspellings are on record for Abuja in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 Abuja, spelled A-B-U-J-A.
Definition
- 1Hauptstadt von Nigeria
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Abuja appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Sie wollte, dass wir nach Abuja gehen und ein neues Leben beginnen.“
„Die Moschee ist voll, niemand unterhält sich nebenher, als Sheikh über den Tod des Gouverneurs spricht, über die Planlosigkeit der Regierung in Abuja und warum wir beim nächsten Mal einen muslimischen Kandidaten zum Präsidenten wählen müssten.“
This word in other languages
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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