aktiv
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,100
in German word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
12
similar word pairs
aktiv is anGermanadj. It means: in einer bestimmten Hinsicht tätig, engagiert Pronounced [akˈtiːf]. It ranks #1,100 in German word frequency. Often confused with artig and antik.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aktiv |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [akˈtiːf] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,100 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for aktiv is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [akˈtiːf]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,100 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for aktiv, with forms such as "akitv", "akktiv", and "aktivv". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "artig", "antik", "aktive", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is aktiv, spelled A-K-T-I-V, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1in einer bestimmten Hinsicht tätig, engagiert
- 2radioaktive Strahlen aussendend
- 3als Mitglied engagiert beteiligt
- 4in Betrieb befindlich
- 5im Aktiv befindlich (= Konjugationsformen des Verbs)
- 6vergleiche [4], aktiv genutzt, auf der aktiven Seite der Bestandskonten (zum Beispiel PKW oder Büromöbel)
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: akitv,akktiv,aktivv,akttiv,aktvi,atkiv,kativ
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for aktiv
Misspelling Variants of "aktiv"
Frequency rank: #1,100 in German
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Nearby German words
Other entries that begin with the letter A in our German index: