ANC
[aːʔɛnˈt͡seː]
The verdict
“ANC” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #39,778) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #39,778
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Afrikanischer Nationalkongress
Corpus desk
Index DE-anc · ANC · German
ANC · rank #39,778 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,778
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH Andorra
Nearest frequency peer: Andorra (+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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „ANC“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
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almanach
60,226 corpus weight
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almost
60,225 corpus weight
- ANC
ANC
60,223 corpus weight
- Andorra
Andorra
60,222 corpus weight
- anfechten
anfechten
60,220 corpus weight
- angefochten
angefochten
60,219 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „ANC“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ANC |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | [aːʔɛnˈt͡seː] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #39,778 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „ANC“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ANC is neighbouring look-alikes ("at", "as", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced [aːʔɛnˈt͡seː]. Frequency #39,778 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Afrikanischer Nationalkongress".
No misspelling variants are generated for ANC in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "at", "as", "AP", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 ANC, spelled A-N-C.
Definition
- 1Afrikanischer Nationalkongress
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ANC appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Neben einigen anderen Führungspersönlichkeiten trat seit 1944 vor allem der aus der niederen Xhosa-Aristokratie stammende Rechtsanwalt Nelson Mandela als Organisator und Wortführer im ANC hervor.“
„Die Verhandlungen zwischen ANC und der Apartheidsregierung geraten ins Stocken.“
This word in other languages
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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