Zabel
[ˈt͡saːbl̩]
The verdict
“Zabel” is uncommon German (frequency #63,034 among 1,996 “Z” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,034
- frequency rank, German
- 1,996
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - deutschsprachiger Familienname, Nachname
Corpus desk
Index DE-zabel · Zabel · German
Zabel · rank #63,034 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,034
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,996
- PHOTO-FINISH Zahnarztpraxis
Nearest frequency peer: Zahnarztpraxis (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Zabel”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Wunschtraum
Wunschtraum
36,971 corpus weight
- wähnen
wähnen
36,970 corpus weight
- Zabel
Zabel
36,967 corpus weight
- Zahnarztpra…
Zahnarztpraxis
36,966 corpus weight
- zahnärztlic…
zahnärztliche
36,965 corpus weight
- Zeitabständ…
Zeitabständen
36,963 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Zabel” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| 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) |
Wo “Zabel” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Rare enough to double-check
Zabel is uncommon German at frequency #63,034 among 1,996 “Z” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [ˈt͡saːbl̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Zabel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Frau Zabel ist ein Genie im Verkauf.
Herr Zabel wollte uns kein Interview geben.
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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