Abzählreim
German, noun/ˈapt͡sɛːlˌʁaɪ̯m/
Abzählreim is spelled A-B-Z-Ä-H-L-R-E-I-M (10 letters) and appears about once in every 40 million words in written German, the 376,420th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Abzählreim is a German masculine noun meaning “counting rhyme” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Sprüchlein, mit dem Kinder bestimmen, wer etwas Bestimmtes tun muss”.
What does Abzählreim mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecounting rhyme
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Sprüchlein, mit dem Kinder bestimmen, wer etwas Bestimmtes tun muss
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Abzählreim
- Abzählreimes genitive
- Abzählreims genitive
- Abzählreime plural
- Abzählreimen dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Abzählreim?
- /ˈapt͡sɛːlˌʁaɪ̯m/
- /ˈapt͡seːlˌʁaɪ̯m/
- [ˈapt͡sɛːlˌʁaɪ̯m]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Abzählreim in German?
Abzählreim appears about once in every 40 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).