abhören
\ˈapˌhøːʁən\
The verdict
“abhören” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Écouter (un enregistrement, une émission).
Corpus desk
Index FR-abhoren · abhören · French
abhören · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abhören |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈapˌhøːʁən\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
abhören is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈapˌhøːʁən\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for abhören, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is abhören, spelled A-B-H-Ö-R-E-N.
Definition
- 1Écouter (un enregistrement, une émission).
- 2Examiner, ausculter à l’aide d’un stéthoscope.
- 3Intercepter, mettre sur écoute.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how abhören appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Als der Sanitäter meine Lunge mit dem Stethoskop abhörte, bat er mich, mehrmals ein- und auszuatmen.
Als die Ermittler die Daten bekommen, schlagen sie nicht sofort zu, sondern beginnen intensiv zu ermitteln. Über Wochen beschatten sie die Führungsriege von Tipster, hören deren Gespräche ab.
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.