afrikanisch
[afʁiˈkaːnɪʃ]
The verdict
“afrikanisch” is uncommon German (frequency #59,408 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,408
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sich auf Afrika, Afrikaner beziehend
Corpus desk
Index DE-afrikanisch · afrikanisch · German
afrikanisch · rank #59,408 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,408
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH agar
Nearest frequency peer: agar (+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 „afrikanisch“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Achmed
Achmed
40,597 corpus weight
- Achsel
Achsel
40,596 corpus weight
- afrikanisch
afrikanisch
40,593 corpus weight
- agar
agar
40,592 corpus weight
- agilen
agilen
40,591 corpus weight
- aks
aks
40,590 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „afrikanisch“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | afrikanisch |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [afʁiˈkaːnɪʃ] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #59,408 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „afrikanisch“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
afrikanisch is uncommon German at frequency #59,408 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [afʁiˈkaːnɪʃ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "sich auf Afrika, Afrikaner beziehend".
afrikanisch has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is afrikanisch, spelled A-F-R-I-K-A-N-I-S-C-H.
Definition
- 1sich auf Afrika, Afrikaner beziehend
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how afrikanisch appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Afrikanische Kunst hat sehr oft einen religiösen Hintergrund.
„In der Folge verfestigte sich zudem die Auffassung, dass das Ptolemäische Mondgebirge nicht mit dem Kilimandscharo identisch sei und dass an diesem Berg auch kein Fluss entspringe, der einen der großen afrikanischen Binnenseen speisen konnte.“
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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