abreißen
\apˌʁaɪ̯sn̩\
The verdict
“abreißen” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Arracher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-abrei-en · abreißen · French
abreißen · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | abreißen |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \apˌʁaɪ̯sn̩\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « abreißen » en français
Rare enough to double-check
abreißen is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \apˌʁaɪ̯sn̩\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for abreißen, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is abreißen, spelled A-B-R-E-I-S-S-E-N.
Definition
- 1Arracher.
- 2Démolir, ravager.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how abreißen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Wenn du das Pflaster zu kräftig abreißt, öffnet sich die Wunde vielleicht wieder.
Das konstruktivistische Betongebäude (...) blickt auf das, was einstmals der imposante Hauptbahnhof war und nun ein Chaos aus Steinen, Ziegeln und Metall ist, umgeben von einem Bretterzaun, den zu besteigen verboten ist, denn in dem Schutt dahinter liegen außer Kadavern von deutschen Soldaten auch Minen und Handgranaten: Einem kleinen Jungen wurde bereits…
Synonyms
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.