Afrikaans
[ˌafʁiˈkaːns]
The verdict
“Afrikaans” is uncommon German (frequency #84,891 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,891
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - aus niederländischen Dialekten entstandene Sprache der Buren und nichtweißer Volksgruppen in der Republik Südafrika und im heutigen Namibia
Corpus desk
Index DE-afrikaans · Afrikaans · German
Afrikaans · rank #84,891 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,891
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH afk
Nearest frequency peer: afk (-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 „Afrikaans“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- 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
- albernes
albernes
15,107 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Afrikaans“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Afrikaans |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˌafʁiˈkaːns] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #84,891 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Afrikaans“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Afrikaans is uncommon German at frequency #84,891 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˌafʁiˈkaːns]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "aus niederländischen Dialekten entstandene Sprache der Buren und nichtweißer Volksgruppen in der Republik Südafrika und im heutigen Namibia".
Zero misspellings are on record for Afrikaans in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 Afrikaans, spelled A-F-R-I-K-A-A-N-S.
Definition
- 1aus niederländischen Dialekten entstandene Sprache der Buren und nichtweißer Volksgruppen in der Republik Südafrika und im heutigen Namibia
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Afrikaans appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sprechen Sie Afrikaans?
„Etwa 95 % des Wortschatzes des Afrikaans stammen aus dem Niederländischen.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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