Amtsvorgänger
[ˈamt͡sfoːɐ̯ˌɡɛŋɐ]
The verdict
“Amtsvorgänger” is uncommon German (frequency #65,970 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,970
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Person, die vor einer anderen ein öffentliches Amt innehatte
Corpus desk
Index DE-amtsvorganger · Amtsvorgänger · German
Amtsvorgänger · rank #65,970 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,970
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH amüsanten
Nearest frequency peer: amüsanten (+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 „Amtsvorgänger“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Alpaka
Alpaka
34,035 corpus weight
- Altmarkt
Altmarkt
34,033 corpus weight
- Amtsvorgäng…
Amtsvorgänger
34,031 corpus weight
- amüsanten
amüsanten
34,030 corpus weight
- anberaumt
anberaumt
34,029 corpus weight
- angedeuteten
angedeuteten
34,028 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Amtsvorgänger“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Amtsvorgänger |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈamt͡sfoːɐ̯ˌɡɛŋɐ] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #65,970 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Amtsvorgänger“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Amtsvorgänger is uncommon German at frequency #65,970 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈamt͡sfoːɐ̯ˌɡɛŋɐ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Person, die vor einer anderen ein öffentliches Amt innehatte".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Amtsvorgänger, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Amtsvorgänger, spelled A-M-T-S-V-O-R-G-Ä-N-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1Person, die vor einer anderen ein öffentliches Amt innehatte
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Amtsvorgänger appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Vor Van der Steur waren auch sein Amtsvorgänger und sein Staatssekretär vorzeitig aus dem Amt geschieden.“
Antonyms
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).