abwehren
[ˈapˌveːʁən]
The verdict
“abwehren” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #26,288. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,288
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - etwas oder jemanden zurückschlagen, um auf einen Angriff zu reagieren
Corpus desk
Index DE-abwehren · abwehren · German
abwehren · rank #26,288 · 12 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,288
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH abwechslungsr…
Nearest frequency peer: abwechslungsreiche (-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 „abwehren“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- abspritzen
abspritzen
73,716 corpus weight
- absurden
absurden
73,715 corpus weight
- abwechslung…
abwechslungsreiche
73,714 corpus weight
- abwehren
abwehren
73,713 corpus weight
- Adalbert
Adalbert
73,712 corpus weight
- addiert
addiert
73,711 corpus weight
What this shows „abwehren“ 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 | abwehren |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈapˌveːʁən] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #26,288 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „abwehren“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around abwehren (IPA [ˈapˌveːʁən]), averb. Corpus frequency is #26,288 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for abwehren, with forms such as "abbwehren", "abewhren", and "abwehern". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "abwenden", "abwerfen", "abweisen", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is abwehren, spelled A-B-W-E-H-R-E-N.
Definition
- 1etwas oder jemanden zurückschlagen, um auf einen Angriff zu reagieren
- 2eine Bedrohung, einen Schlag oder Ähnliches verhindern
- 3etwas zurückweisen, sich etwas widersetzen
- 4etwas oder jemanden von etwas fernhalten, vertreiben
- 5Ablehnung, Widerspruch äußern
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how abwehren appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der Angriff konnte nur mit Mühe abgewehrt werden.
„Das US-Militär investiert große Summen in Laserwaffen, damit sollen beispielsweise Drohnen abgewehrt werden.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abbwehren
- abewhren
- abwehern
- abwehhren
- abwehrenn
- abwehrne
- abwehrren
- abwerhen
- abwheren
- abwwehren
- awbehren
- bawehren
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of abwehren - 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 "abwehren", 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).