afternoon
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The verdict
“afternoon” is uncommon German (frequency #87,365 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,365
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nachmittag
Corpus desk
Index DE-afternoon · afternoon · German
afternoon · rank #87,365 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,365
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH adelt
Nearest frequency peer: adelt (-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 „afternoon“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Achat
Achat
12,639 corpus weight
- acre
acre
12,638 corpus weight
- adelt
adelt
12,637 corpus weight
- afternoon
afternoon
12,636 corpus weight
- Agen
Agen
12,635 corpus weight
- Ahrtal
Ahrtal
12,633 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „afternoon“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | afternoon |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #87,365 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „afternoon“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
afternoon is uncommon German at frequency #87,365 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nachmittag".
afternoon has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is afternoon, spelled A-F-T-E-R-N-O-O-N.
Definition
- 1Nachmittag
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how afternoon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
But she came eventually home, late in the afternoon.
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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