afk
The verdict
“afk” is uncommon German (frequency #84,890 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as an abbreviation. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,890
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - away from keyboard: ‚nicht an der Tastatur‘, verwendet bei kurzer Abwesenheit zum Beispiel in Chats
Corpus desk
Index DE-afk · afk · German
afk · rank #84,890 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,890
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH Adm
Nearest frequency peer: Adm (-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 „afk“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- additiven
additiven
15,114 corpus weight
- Adjektiven
Adjektiven
15,113 corpus weight
- Adm
Adm
15,112 corpus weight
- afk
afk
15,111 corpus weight
- Afrikaans
Afrikaans
15,110 corpus weight
- Aichinger
Aichinger
15,109 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „afk“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | afk |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #84,890 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „afk“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
afk is uncommon German at frequency #84,890 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as anabbreviation. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "away from keyboard: ‚nicht an der Tastatur‘, verwendet bei kurzer Abwesenheit zum Beispiel in Chats".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for afk, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. 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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is afk, spelled A-F-K.
Definition
- 1away from keyboard: ‚nicht an der Tastatur‘, verwendet bei kurzer Abwesenheit zum Beispiel in Chats
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how afk appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
mom bin kurz afk
Antonyms
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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