Afrikaaner
[afʁiˈkaːnɐ]
The verdict
“Afrikaaner” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Siedler, überwiegend niederländischer Herkunft, im Bereich des heutigen Südafrika und Namibia
Corpus desk
Index DE-afrikaaner · Afrikaaner · German
Afrikaaner · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 | Afrikaaner |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [afʁiˈkaːnɐ] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Afrikaaner“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Afrikaaner is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [afʁiˈkaːnɐ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Siedler, überwiegend niederländischer Herkunft, im Bereich des heutigen Südafrika und Namibia".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Afrikaaner, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Afrikaaner, spelled A-F-R-I-K-A-A-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Siedler, überwiegend niederländischer Herkunft, im Bereich des heutigen Südafrika und Namibia
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Afrikaaner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Dieses Ereignis ist später von der burischen Geschichtsschreibung als Zeichen dafür gedeutet worden, Gott habe den Sieg der Afrikaaner und damit auch ihre Vorherrschaft in Südafrika gewollt.“
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.