accept
[əksɛpt]
The verdict
“accept” is uncommon German (frequency #68,963 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,963
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - annehmen, entgegennehmen, akzeptieren
Corpus desk
Index DE-accept · accept · German
accept · rank #68,963 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,963
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH Achern
Nearest frequency peer: Achern (+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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „accept“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Abstellkamm…
Abstellkammer
31,042 corpus weight
- Abteilungsl…
Abteilungsleiterin
31,041 corpus weight
- abwendet
abwendet
31,040 corpus weight
- accept
accept
31,038 corpus weight
- Achern
Achern
31,037 corpus weight
- ADP
ADP
31,036 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „accept“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | accept |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [əksɛpt] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #68,963 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „accept“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
accept is uncommon German at frequency #68,963 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [əksɛpt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
accept has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 accept, spelled A-C-C-E-P-T.
Definition
- 1annehmen, entgegennehmen, akzeptieren
- 2akzeptieren, anerkennen, etwas gelten lassen, hinnehmen, sich mit etwas abfinden
- 3(in eine Gruppe) aufnehmen
- 4auffassen, verstehen
- 5(einen Auftrag) annehmen, (einen Wechsel) akzeptieren
- 6annehmen, zusagen, einverstanden sein
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how accept appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"Presuming however, that this studied avoidance spoke rather a momentary embarrassment than any dislike of the proposal, and seeing in her husband, who was fond of society, a perfect willingness to accept it, she ventured to engage for her attendance, and the day after the next was fixed on."
The boys at school did not accept him because he wore glasses.
Synonyms
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).