Anführerin

[ˈanˌfyːʁəʁɪn]

/[ˈanˌfyːʁəʁɪn]/ noun

The verdict

“Anführerin” is uncommon German (frequency #54,312 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#54,312
frequency rank, German
6,976
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - weibliche Person, die eine Gruppe leitet

Corpus desk

Index DE-anfuhrerin · Anführerin · German

Anführerin · rank #54,312 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #54,312
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,976
  • PHOTO-FINISH andante

Nearest frequency peer: andante (-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 „Anführerin“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Anführerin“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Anführerin
PropertyValue
HeadwordAnführerin
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈanˌfyːʁəʁɪn]
Letters10
Frequency rank#54,312
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „Anführerin“ im Deutschen

Diese Skala geht vom Kern des Alltagdeutschen (links) bis zum seltenen Langschwanz (rechts).Anführerinfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Ticks laufen logarithmisch; jeder ist rund zehnmal seltener. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „andante“ (#54,311), „angepöbelt“ (#54,313), „analysierten“ (#54,310). Unter 6,976 „A“-Lemmata liegt „Anführerin“ bei #54,312. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Anführerin is uncommon German at frequency #54,312 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈanˌfyːʁəʁɪn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

No misspelling variants are generated for Anführerin in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Anführerin, spelled A-N-F-Ü-H-R-E-R-I-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    weibliche Person, die eine Gruppe leitet
  2. 2
    weibliche Person oder Gruppe weiblicher Individuen (oder auch Person/Gruppe, deren grammatisches Genus das Femininum ist), die den ersten Platz eines noch nicht entschiedenen Ereignisses belegt

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Anführerin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Sie ist die Anführerin der Räuberbande.
  2. „Als Anführerin einer Bande brauchte man einen klaren Kopf und musste in jeder Situation absolute Ruhe bewahren.“

Synonyms

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Anführerin"?
"Anführerin" is spelled A-N-F-Ü-H-R-E-R-I-N. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈanˌfyːʁəʁɪn].
What does "Anführerin" mean?
As a noun, "Anführerin" means: weibliche Person, die eine Gruppe leitet
How do you pronounce "Anführerin"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Anführerin" is [ˈanˌfyːʁəʁɪn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Anführerin" come from?
"Anführerin" is a German word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Anführerin", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list