anecken
German, verb
anecken is spelled A-N-E-C-K-E-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written German, the 111,951st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Anecken is a German verb meaning “to bump into, hit by accident” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Anecken is a different word: “gerund of anecken”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “unabsichtlich an die Ecke von etwas anstoßen”.
What does anecken mean in English?
verb
- 1
to bump into, hit by accident
- 2
to behave in a way that causes offense or disagreement, to rub people the wrong way
Er ist mit seinen Aussagen auch bei Parteikollegen angeeckt.
noun
- 1
neutergerund of anecken
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. unabsichtlich an die Ecke von etwas anstoßen 2. negativ auffallen, für Ärger und Missfallen sorgen
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of anecken
- eckt an present singular third-person
- eckte an past
- angeeckt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- sein auxiliary
- haben or sein auxiliary
- aneckend participle present
- anzuecken infinitive infinitive-zu
- ecke an first-person indicative present
- ecken an first-person indicative plural
- eckst an indicative present second-person
- eckest an second-person singular subjunctive
- ecket an plural second-person subjunctive
- eckten an first-person indicative plural
- ecktest an indicative preterite second-person
- ecktet an indicative plural preterite
- ecke an! imperative singular
- eckt an! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is anecken in German?
anecken appears about once in every 5 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).