anklingen
[ˈanˌklɪŋən]
The verdict
“anklingen” is uncommon German (frequency #66,969 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,969
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (zwischen den Zeilen) zu hören, zu verstehen sein
Corpus desk
Index DE-anklingen · anklingen · German
anklingen · rank #66,969 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,969
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH anhäufen
Nearest frequency peer: anhäufen (-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 „anklingen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- angetriebene
angetriebene
33,035 corpus weight
- angetrieben…
angetriebenen
33,034 corpus weight
- anhäufen
anhäufen
33,033 corpus weight
- anklingen
anklingen
33,032 corpus weight
- anpflanzen
anpflanzen
33,030 corpus weight
- Anprobe
Anprobe
33,029 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „anklingen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | anklingen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈanˌklɪŋən] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #66,969 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „anklingen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
anklingen is uncommon German at frequency #66,969 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈanˌklɪŋən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
anklingen has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 anklingen, spelled A-N-K-L-I-N-G-E-N.
Definition
- 1(zwischen den Zeilen) zu hören, zu verstehen sein
- 2auf etwas aufmerksam machen, was bereits bekannt ist, an etwas denken lassen
- 3mit den Trinkgläsern anstoßen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how anklingen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Klingt da etwas Wehmut an, meine Liebe?
„Und ein Gedicht Georges war es, das Clotilde Schlager mithörte beim lauten Lesen von Dowsons Gedicht, präziser: die zitierte Strophe klang an ein Gedicht Georges an.“
Antonyms
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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