Anglistik
[aŋˈɡlɪstɪk]
The verdict
“Anglistik” is a moderately-common German word, ranked #47,205 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #47,205
- frequency rank, German
- 9
- letters
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - die Wissenschaft von der englischen Sprache und Literatur. Der selten gebrauchte Plural bezeichnet eine Mehrzahl von Institutionen, an welchen Anglistik betrieben wird.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Anglistik |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aŋˈɡlɪstɪk] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #47,205 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Anglistik” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Anglistik is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aŋˈɡlɪstɪk]. Corpus data places it at rank #47,205 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "die Wissenschaft von der englischen Sprache und Literatur. Der selten gebrauchte Plural bezeichnet eine Mehrzahl von Institutionen, an welchen Anglistik betrieben wird.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for Anglistik, with forms such as "agnlistik", "angglistik", and "angilstik". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Anglistik, spelled A-N-G-L-I-S-T-I-K.
Definition
- 1die Wissenschaft von der englischen Sprache und Literatur. Der selten gebrauchte Plural bezeichnet eine Mehrzahl von Institutionen, an welchen Anglistik betrieben wird.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: agnlistik,angglistik,angilstik,anglisitk,anglisstik,anglistikk,anglistki,anglisttik,anglitsik,angllistik,anglsitik,anlgistik,annglistik,naglistik
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Anglistik - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Using “Anglistik”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is A-N-G-L-I-S-T-I-K - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [aŋˈɡlɪstɪk] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.