Akzent
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,674
in German word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
Akzent is aGermannoun. It means: typische Eigenschaft der Aussprache oder des Tonfalls einer Sprache (oft die eines Fremdsprachigen, der die Muttersprache des Zuhörers spricht) Pronounced [akˈt͡sɛnt]. It ranks #8,674 in German word frequency. Often confused with ätzend and Akzente.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Akzent |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [akˈt͡sɛnt] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #8,674 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Akzent is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [akˈt͡sɛnt]. Corpus data places it at rank #8,674 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for Akzent, with forms such as "akeznt", "akkzent", and "akzennt". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "ätzend", "Akzente", "Akten", 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 Akzent, spelled A-K-Z-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1typische Eigenschaft der Aussprache oder des Tonfalls einer Sprache (oft die eines Fremdsprachigen, der die Muttersprache des Zuhörers spricht)
- 2Betonung eines Satzes, Wortes, einer Silbe oder eines Lauts
- 3Zeichen, das Betonungen ([2]) oder abweichende Aussprache kennzeichnet
- 4Zeichen in der Notation, das angibt, welche Musiknoten betont werden sollen
- 5besondere Betonung oder Hervorhebung eines Sachverhalts
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: akeznt,akkzent,akzennt,akzentt,akzetn,akznet,akzzent,azkent,kazent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Akzent
Misspelling Variants of "Akzent"
Frequency rank: #8,674 in German
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