Anker
German, noun
Anker is spelled A-N-K-E-R (5 letters) and appears 5.8 times per million words in written German, the 11,022nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Anker is a German masculine noun meaning “anchor” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, anker is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Eisenhaken an einer langen Kette zum Festlegen schwimmender Fahrzeuge am Fluss- oder Meeresboden”.
What does Anker mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineanchor
vor Anker gehen
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Eisenhaken an einer langen Kette zum Festlegen schwimmender Fahrzeuge am Fluss- oder Meeresboden 2. Schraubenbolzen zum Befestigen von Maschinen auf Fundamenten 3. der sich vor einem Elektromagneten drehende Teil eines Apparates oder einer elektrischen Maschine 4. ein Bauteil, das eine zugsichere Verbindung (Verankerung) von zwei Bauteilen herstellt
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Anker
- Ankers genitive
- Ankern dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Anker
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Anker in German?
Anker appears 5.8 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).