Anläufen
[ˈanlɔɪ̯fn̩]
The verdict
“Anläufen” is uncommon German (frequency #77,668 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,668
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dativ Plural des Substantivs Anlauf
Corpus desk
Index DE-anlaufen · Anläufen · German
Anläufen · rank #77,668 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,668
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH ankotzt
Nearest frequency peer: ankotzt (-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 „Anläufen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- angrenzender
angrenzender
22,336 corpus weight
- ankotzt
ankotzt
22,334 corpus weight
- Anläufen
Anläufen
22,333 corpus weight
- Annalena
Annalena
22,332 corpus weight
- antidemokra…
antidemokratische
22,331 corpus weight
- antivirus
antivirus
22,330 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Anläufen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Anläufen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈanlɔɪ̯fn̩] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #77,668 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Anläufen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Anläufen is uncommon German at frequency #77,668 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈanlɔɪ̯fn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dativ Plural des Substantivs Anlauf".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Anläufen, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Anläufen, spelled A-N-L-Ä-U-F-E-N.
Definition
- 1Dativ Plural des Substantivs Anlauf
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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