aks
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The verdict
“aks” is uncommon German (frequency #59,411 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,411
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ähre
Corpus desk
Index DE-aks · aks · German
aks · rank #59,411 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,411
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH agilen
Nearest frequency peer: agilen (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “aks”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- afrikanisch
afrikanisch
40,593 corpus weight
- agar
agar
40,592 corpus weight
- agilen
agilen
40,591 corpus weight
- aks
aks
40,590 corpus weight
- alleinstehe…
alleinstehend
40,588 corpus weight
- Allemagne
Allemagne
40,587 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “aks” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aks |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #59,411 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “aks” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Rare enough to double-check
aks is uncommon German at frequency #59,411 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ähre".
No generated misspelling entries exist for aks in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is aks, spelled A-K-S.
Definition
- 1Ähre
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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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