Abwärtsspirale
[ˈapvɛʁt͡sʃpiˌʁaːlə]
The verdict
“Abwärtsspirale” is uncommon German (frequency #66,942 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,942
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - kontinuierliche Verschlechterung, lang anhaltende negative Entwicklung
Corpus desk
Index DE-abwartsspirale · Abwärtsspirale · German
Abwärtsspirale · rank #66,942 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,942
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH abwinken
Nearest frequency peer: abwinken (-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 „Abwärtsspirale“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- absehbaren
absehbaren
33,062 corpus weight
- Abstrichen
Abstrichen
33,061 corpus weight
- abwinken
abwinken
33,060 corpus weight
- Abwärtsspir…
Abwärtsspirale
33,059 corpus weight
- abzuklären
abzuklären
33,058 corpus weight
- abzustatten
abzustatten
33,057 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Abwärtsspirale“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Abwärtsspirale |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈapvɛʁt͡sʃpiˌʁaːlə] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #66,942 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Abwärtsspirale“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Abwärtsspirale is uncommon German at frequency #66,942 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈapvɛʁt͡sʃpiˌʁaːlə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "kontinuierliche Verschlechterung, lang anhaltende negative Entwicklung".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Abwärtsspirale in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Abwärtsspirale, spelled A-B-W-Ä-R-T-S-S-P-I-R-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1kontinuierliche Verschlechterung, lang anhaltende negative Entwicklung
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Abwärtsspirale appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„In der Zeit kann viel passieren, wenn sich ein Land in einer verheerenden Abwärtsspirale befindet.“
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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