Anken
[ˈaŋkn̩]
The verdict
“Anken” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nominativ Plural des Substantivs Anke
Corpus desk
Index DE-anken · Anken · German
Anken · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Anken |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈaŋkn̩] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Anken“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Anken is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈaŋkn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 7 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Anken, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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 headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Anken, spelled A-N-K-E-N.
Definition
- 1Nominativ Plural des Substantivs Anke
- 2Genitiv Plural des Substantivs Anke
- 3Dativ Plural des Substantivs Anke
- 4Akkusativ Plural des Substantivs Anke
- 5Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Anke
- 6Dativ Singular des Substantivs Anke
- 7Akkusativ Singular des Substantivs Anke
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.