Zabel
[ˈt͡saːbl̩]
The verdict
“Zabel” is an uncommon German word, ranked #63,034 in German word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #63,034
- frequency rank, German
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - deutschsprachiger Familienname, Nachname
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Zabel |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈt͡saːbl̩] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #63,034 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Zabel” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Zabel is 5 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt͡saːbl̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #63,034 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "deutschsprachiger Familienname, Nachname".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Zabel, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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. The correct German form is Zabel, spelled Z-A-B-E-L.
Definition
- 1deutschsprachiger Familienname, Nachname
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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Using “Zabel”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is Z-A-B-E-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈt͡saːbl̩] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
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.