anfeuern
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#36,785
in German word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
anfeuern is aGermanverb. It means: jemanden motivieren; jemanden durch Gesten (meist Zurufe/Klatschen) antreiben etwas erfolgreich zu beenden/durchzuführen Pronounced [ˈanˌfɔɪ̯ɐn]. Often confused with Anlegern and anheuern.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | anfeuern |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈanˌfɔɪ̯ɐn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #36,785 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for anfeuern is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈanˌfɔɪ̯ɐn]. Corpus data places it at rank #36,785 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for anfeuern, with forms such as "afneuern", "anefuern", and "anfeeurn". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "Anlegern", "anheuern", "ansteuern", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is anfeuern, spelled A-N-F-E-U-E-R-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1jemanden motivieren; jemanden durch Gesten (meist Zurufe/Klatschen) antreiben etwas erfolgreich zu beenden/durchzuführen
- 2ein Feuer (beispielsweise in einem Ofen/Kamin) entzünden
- 3etwas (beispielsweise eine Diskussion/eine Kritik) verstärken
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: afneuern,anefuern,anfeeurn,anfeuenr,anfeuernn,anfeuerrn,anfeuren,anffeuern,anfueern,annfeuern,nafeuern
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for anfeuern
Misspelling Variants of "anfeuern"
Frequency rank: #36,785 in German
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Nearby German words
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