Treppenabsatz
[ˈtʁɛpn̩ʔapzat͡s]
The verdict
“Treppenabsatz” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - größere ebene Fläche, die den Verlauf einer Treppe in Abschnitte gliedert und die auch bei geraden Treppen einen Wechsel der Laufrichtung ermöglicht
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Treppenabsatz |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈtʁɛpn̩ʔapzat͡s] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Treppenabsatz” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Treppenabsatz is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈtʁɛpn̩ʔapzat͡s]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "größere ebene Fläche, die den Verlauf einer Treppe in Abschnitte gliedert und die auch bei geraden Treppen einen Wechsel der Laufrichtung ermöglicht".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Treppenabsatz in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Treppenabsatz, spelled T-R-E-P-P-E-N-A-B-S-A-T-Z.
Definition
- 1größere ebene Fläche, die den Verlauf einer Treppe in Abschnitte gliedert und die auch bei geraden Treppen einen Wechsel der Laufrichtung ermöglicht
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Treppenabsatz”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is T-R-E-P-P-E-N-A-B-S-A-T-Z - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.