arbeiten
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#348
in German word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
13
similar word pairs
arbeiten is aGermanverb. It means: geistig oder körperlich tätig sein, zielstrebig handeln, um so ein Ergebnis zu erzielen Pronounced [ˈaʁbaɪ̯tn̩]. It ranks #348 in German word frequency. Often confused with arbeitet and Arbeiter.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arbeiten |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈaʁbaɪ̯tn̩] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #348 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for arbeiten is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈaʁbaɪ̯tn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #348 in overall German word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for arbeiten, with forms such as "abreiten", "arbbeiten", and "arbeietn". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "arbeitet", "Arbeiter", "arbeitete", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is arbeiten, spelled A-R-B-E-I-T-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1geistig oder körperlich tätig sein, zielstrebig handeln, um so ein Ergebnis zu erzielen
- 2in Betrieb sein, zum Beispiel einer Maschine oder Anlage
- 3gedanklich beschäftigen, ein innerer mit Gefühlen verbundender Prozess
- 4Holz oder anderes Material: sich im Wechsel von Temperatur und Feuchtigkeit verformen
- 5in einem Beschäftigungsverhältnis stehen, erwerbstätig sein
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abreiten,arbbeiten,arbeietn,arbeitenn,arbeitne,arbeitten,arbetien,arbieten,arebiten,arrbeiten,rabeiten
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for arbeiten
Misspelling Variants of "arbeiten"
Frequency rank: #348 in German
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Nearby German words
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