Amerikanistik
[ameʁikaˈnɪstɪk]
The verdict
“Amerikanistik” is uncommon German (frequency #95,233 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,233
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - die Wissenschaft von der Sprache und Literatur der USA
Corpus desk
Index DE-amerikanistik · Amerikanistik · German
Amerikanistik · rank #95,233 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,233
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH ambivalenten
Nearest frequency peer: ambivalenten (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Amerikanistik“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- alpiner
alpiner
4,772 corpus weight
- Altarbild
Altarbild
4,771 corpus weight
- Altmeier
Altmeier
4,770 corpus weight
- ambivalenten
ambivalenten
4,769 corpus weight
- Amerikanist…
Amerikanistik
4,768 corpus weight
- Anastasius
Anastasius
4,765 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Amerikanistik“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Amerikanistik |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ameʁikaˈnɪstɪk] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #95,233 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Amerikanistik“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Amerikanistik is uncommon German at frequency #95,233 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ameʁikaˈnɪstɪk]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Amerikanistik has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Amerikanistik, spelled A-M-E-R-I-K-A-N-I-S-T-I-K.
Definition
- 1die Wissenschaft von der Sprache und Literatur der USA
- 2die Disziplin der Völkerkunde, die sich mit den nordamerikanischen Ureinwohnern befasst
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Amerikanistik appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sie studierte Amerikanistik an der Universität Tübingen.
Die Amerikanistik erforscht Kultur und Sprachen der Indianer.
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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