anfing
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#14,003
in German word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
anfing is aGermanverb. It means: 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv der Nebensatzkonjugation des Verbs anfangen Pronounced [ˈanˌfɪŋ]. Often confused with Anhang and Anflug.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | anfing |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈanˌfɪŋ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #14,003 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for anfing is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈanˌfɪŋ]. Corpus data places it at rank #14,003 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for anfing, with forms such as "afning", "anffing", and "anfign". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "Anhang", "Anflug", "anging", 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 anfing, spelled A-N-F-I-N-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 11. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv der Nebensatzkonjugation des Verbs anfangen
- 23. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv der Nebensatzkonjugation des Verbs anfangen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: afning,anffing,anfign,anfingg,anfinng,anfnig,anifng,annfing,nafing
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for anfing
Misspelling Variants of "anfing"
Frequency rank: #14,003 in German
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Nearby German words
Other entries that begin with the letter A in our German index: