afk
The verdict
“afk” is an uncommon German word, ranked #84,890 in German word frequency and used as an abbreviation.
- #84,890
- frequency rank, German
- 3
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - away from keyboard: ‚nicht an der Tastatur‘, verwendet bei kurzer Abwesenheit zum Beispiel in Chats
| 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) |
Where “afk” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for afk is 3 letters long, classified as an abbreviation. Corpus data places it at rank #84,890 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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
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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Using “afk”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is A-F-K - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.