androhen
[ˈanˌdʁoːən]
The verdict
“androhen” is uncommon German (frequency #84,908 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,908
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - in der Absicht, etwas erreichen zu wollen, unangenehme Konsequenzen in Aussicht stellen
Corpus desk
Index DE-androhen · androhen · German
androhen · rank #84,908 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,908
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH Andersons
Nearest frequency peer: Andersons (-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 „androhen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- analogon
analogon
15,097 corpus weight
- Analphabet
Analphabet
15,096 corpus weight
- anbrüllen
anbrüllen
15,095 corpus weight
- Andersons
Andersons
15,094 corpus weight
- androhen
androhen
15,093 corpus weight
- Angebeteten
Angebeteten
15,091 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „androhen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | androhen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈanˌdʁoːən] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #84,908 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „androhen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
androhen is uncommon German at frequency #84,908 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈanˌdʁoːən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "in der Absicht, etwas erreichen zu wollen, unangenehme Konsequenzen in Aussicht stellen".
Zero misspellings are on record for androhen in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is androhen, spelled A-N-D-R-O-H-E-N.
Definition
- 1in der Absicht, etwas erreichen zu wollen, unangenehme Konsequenzen in Aussicht stellen
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how androhen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Nach Aufdeckung der vom Bürgermeister Wolfgang Holzer angezettelten Verschwörung gegen Albrecht VI. wurde Schönprucker nebst zehn anderen Anhängern des Kaisers verhaftet, gefoltert und ihm die Vierteilung angedroht.“
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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