ankämpfen
[ˈanˌkɛmp͡fn̩]
The verdict
“ankämpfen” has 14 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #41,019. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,019
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - versuchen, einen Widerstand zu überwinden; mit Ausdauer gegen jemanden/etwas vorgehen; versuchen, jemanden/etwas zu besiegen
Corpus desk
Index DE-ankampfen · ankämpfen · German
ankämpfen · rank #41,019 · 14 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,019
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH Anhänge
Nearest frequency peer: Anhänge (-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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „ankämpfen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- angeschlage…
angeschlagenen
58,985 corpus weight
- Angreifern
Angreifern
58,984 corpus weight
- Anhänge
Anhänge
58,983 corpus weight
- ankämpfen
ankämpfen
58,982 corpus weight
- Annehmlichk…
Annehmlichkeiten
58,981 corpus weight
- Annen
Annen
58,980 corpus weight
What this shows „ankämpfen“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ankämpfen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈanˌkɛmp͡fn̩] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #41,019 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „ankämpfen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around ankämpfen (IPA [ˈanˌkɛmp͡fn̩]), averb. Corpus frequency is #41,019 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "versuchen, einen Widerstand zu überwinden; mit Ausdauer gegen jemanden/etwas vorgehen; versuchen, jemanden/etwas zu besiegen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for ankämpfen, with forms such as "aknämpfen", "ankkämpfen", and "ankmäpfen". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "anknüpfen", "ankamen", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 ankämpfen, spelled A-N-K-Ä-M-P-F-E-N.
Definition
- 1versuchen, einen Widerstand zu überwinden; mit Ausdauer gegen jemanden/etwas vorgehen; versuchen, jemanden/etwas zu besiegen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ankämpfen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Vorige Woche holte mich Freund Schwarz aus Ruhrort, der Direktor der ‚Tauerei‘, der großen Drahtseilschleppgesellschaft, zu einer Inspektionsreise nach St. Goar und Bingen ab, wo seine Tauer – halb und halb ja auch die meinen – erfolgreich gegen Wind und Wellen ankämpfen.“
„Die Regierung will mit der höheren Besteuerung von Kraftstoff gegen die Luftverschmutzung im Land ankämpfen.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aknämpfen
- ankkämpfen
- ankmäpfen
- ankämfpen
- ankämmpfen
- ankämpefn
- ankämpfenn
- ankämpffen
- ankämpfne
- ankämppfen
- ankäpmfen
- annkämpfen
- anäkmpfen
- nakämpfen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ankämpfen - 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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "ankämpfen", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).