Ahndung
[ˈaːndʊŋ]
The verdict
“Ahndung” is uncommon German (frequency #74,272 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,272
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bestrafung eines Vergehens, insbesondere durch eine Institution
Corpus desk
Index DE-ahndung · Ahndung · German
Ahndung · rank #74,272 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,272
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH afraid
Nearest frequency peer: afraid (-3 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 „Ahndung“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Adeliger
Adeliger
25,734 corpus weight
- Adenauers
Adenauers
25,733 corpus weight
- afraid
afraid
25,732 corpus weight
- Ahndung
Ahndung
25,729 corpus weight
- Aktivkohle
Aktivkohle
25,726 corpus weight
- Alchemist
Alchemist
25,725 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Ahndung“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ahndung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈaːndʊŋ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #74,272 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Ahndung“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Ahndung is uncommon German at frequency #74,272 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈaːndʊŋ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bestrafung eines Vergehens, insbesondere durch eine Institution".
Ahndung doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Ahndung, spelled A-H-N-D-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1Bestrafung eines Vergehens, insbesondere durch eine Institution
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Ahndung appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Eine Handlung kann als Ordnungswidrigkeit nur geahndet werden, wenn die Möglichkeit der Ahndung gesetzlich bestimmt war, bevor die Handlung begangen wurde. (§ 3 OWiG)
„Die strafrechtliche Ahndung der Zauberei erfolgte abgestuft: vom Schadenszauber ohne Folgen über den Schadenszauber mit Schäden, aber ohne ›Teufelspakt‹ und ›Teufelsbuhlschaft‹, bis hin zur Zauberei mit einem Teufelspakt.“
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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