Ahnenforschung
[ˈaːnənˌfɔʁʃʊŋ]
The verdict
“Ahnenforschung” is uncommon German (frequency #82,459 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,459
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Disziplin, die sich mit der Erforschung der Abstammung von Personen oder Personengruppen befasst
Corpus desk
Index DE-ahnenforschung · Ahnenforschung · German
Ahnenforschung · rank #82,459 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,459
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH agnus
Nearest frequency peer: agnus (-2 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 „Ahnenforschung“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Adem
Adem
17,546 corpus weight
- agnus
agnus
17,544 corpus weight
- Ahnenforsch…
Ahnenforschung
17,542 corpus weight
- aktivere
aktivere
17,539 corpus weight
- alarmierende
alarmierende
17,538 corpus weight
- Alberich
Alberich
17,537 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Ahnenforschung“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ahnenforschung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈaːnənˌfɔʁʃʊŋ] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #82,459 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Ahnenforschung“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Ahnenforschung is uncommon German at frequency #82,459 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈaːnənˌfɔʁʃʊŋ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Disziplin, die sich mit der Erforschung der Abstammung von Personen oder Personengruppen befasst".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Ahnenforschung, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Ahnenforschung, spelled A-H-N-E-N-F-O-R-S-C-H-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1Disziplin, die sich mit der Erforschung der Abstammung von Personen oder Personengruppen befasst
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Ahnenforschung appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Als ich vor einigen Jahren meine ersten zaghaften Schritte in Richtung Ahnenforschung unternommen habe, war ich mir selbst nicht im Klaren darüber, welche Dimension das Ganze annimmt.“
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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