achtens
German, adverb
achtens is spelled A-C-H-T-E-N-S (7 letters) and appears about once in every 23 million words in written German, the 274,993rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Achtens is a German adverb meaning “eighthly” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Achtens is a different word: “genitive of Achten”. On this page, Ächtens is a different word: “genitive of Ächten”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “an achter Stelle (einer Aufzählung, Gliederung oder Ähnlichem) stehend”.
What does achtens mean in English?
adverb
- 1
eighthly
noun
- 1
neutergenitive of Achten
noun
- 1
neutergenitive of Ächten
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adverb: 1. an achter Stelle (einer Aufzählung, Gliederung oder Ähnlichem) stehend
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of achtens
- 8. abbreviation
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is achtens in German?
achtens appears about once in every 23 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).