anonymus

adj

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The verdict

“anonymus” is uncommon German (frequency #55,938 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#55,938
frequency rank, German
6,976
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ohne bekannten Namen, namenlos, anonym

Corpus desk

Index DE-anonymus · anonymus · German

anonymus · rank #55,938 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #55,938
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,976
  • PHOTO-FINISH Angstzustände

Nearest frequency peer: Angstzustände (-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 „anonymus“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „anonymus“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for anonymus
PropertyValue
Headwordanonymus
LanguageGerman
Part of speechAdjective
Letters8
Frequency rank#55,938
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „anonymus“ im Deutschen

Die Häufigkeit läuft von den wenigen Alltagswörtern (links) bis zur langen, seltenen Schwanzseite (rechts).anonymusfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Angstzustände“ (#55,937), „anschnallen“ (#55,939), „angestiftet“ (#55,936). Unter 6,976 „A“-Lemmata liegt „anonymus“ bei #55,938. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

anonymus is uncommon German at frequency #55,938 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "ohne bekannten Namen, namenlos, anonym".

anonymus doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is anonymus, spelled A-N-O-N-Y-M-U-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    ohne bekannten Namen, namenlos, anonym

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how anonymus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. „Sed inter has sollicitudines graviter aestuatus, quendam anonymum codicem subnotatum divina repperi provisione collatum, qui tredecim epistulas sancti Pauli non ignobili annotatione tractavit.“ (Cassiod. inst. 1,8,3)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "anonymus"?
"anonymus" is spelled A-N-O-N-Y-M-U-S.
What does "anonymus" mean?
As an adjective, "anonymus" means: ohne bekannten Namen, namenlos, anonym
What language does "anonymus" come from?
"anonymus" is a German word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "anonymus", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

additive#55,922academia#55,920abstellt#55,916abspülen#55,915

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list