Akan
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The verdict
“Akan” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - in Westafrika gesprochene Gruppe von Sprachen
Corpus desk
Index DE-akan · Akan · German
Akan · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Akan |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Akan“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Akan is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Akan, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 Akan, spelled A-K-A-N.
Definition
- 1in Westafrika gesprochene Gruppe von Sprachen
- 2Sprache, die Vertreter dieser Sprachfamilie ist
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Akan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Akan bezeichnet eine recht kleine Sprachfamilie, die zwei Sprachen umfaßt: das Fanti […] und das Twi[.]“
„Es entwickelten sich multiethnische und multilinguale Freundschaftsnetzwerke, in denen Hausa, Yorùbá, Dagbani, Akan, und Englisch gesprochen wurde.“
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.