abzocken
[ˈapˌt͡sɔkn̩]
The verdict
“abzocken” is uncommon German (frequency #61,248 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,248
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - jemandem etwas mit List und Hinterhältigkeit beziehungsweise in betrügerischer Weise abnehmen
Corpus desk
Index DE-abzocken · abzocken · German
abzocken · rank #61,248 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,248
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH abzeichnete
Nearest frequency peer: abzeichnete (-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 „abzocken“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Abschlusspr…
Abschlussprüfungen
38,756 corpus weight
- abwirft
abwirft
38,755 corpus weight
- abzeichnete
abzeichnete
38,754 corpus weight
- abzocken
abzocken
38,753 corpus weight
- abzuschreib…
abzuschreiben
38,752 corpus weight
- achtern
achtern
38,751 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „abzocken“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abzocken |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈapˌt͡sɔkn̩] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #61,248 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „abzocken“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
abzocken is uncommon German at frequency #61,248 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈapˌt͡sɔkn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for abzocken, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is abzocken, spelled A-B-Z-O-C-K-E-N.
Definition
- 1jemandem etwas mit List und Hinterhältigkeit beziehungsweise in betrügerischer Weise abnehmen
- 2überhöhte Preise verlangen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how abzocken appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Die Übergabe gestaltet sich meist recht schwierig, weil Leute, die beruflich abzocken, eher kamerascheu sind.“
„Dass betrügerische Makler ihre Kundschaft mit Kreditversprechen locken und abzocken, dieses Problem ist seit Jahren bekannt.“
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).