ansa

noun

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The verdict

“ansa” is uncommon German (frequency #99,467 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#99,467
frequency rank, German
6,976
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Griff, Henkel

Corpus desk

Index DE-ansa · ansa · German

ansa · rank #99,467 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #99,467
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,976
  • PHOTO-FINISH Annoncen

Nearest frequency peer: Annoncen (-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 „ansa“

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

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for ansa
PropertyValue
Headwordansa
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
Letters4
Frequency rank#99,467
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „ansa“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.ansafällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

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

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Annoncen“ (#99,466), „antes“ (#99,468), „anlasten“ (#99,465). Unter 6,976 „A“-Lemmata liegt „ansa“ bei #99,467. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

ansa is uncommon German at frequency #99,467 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Griff, Henkel".

No misspelling variants are generated for ansa in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is ansa, spelled A-N-S-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Griff, Henkel

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. „amphoras nolito implere nimium: ansarum infimarum fini; et amphoras in sole ponito, ubi herba non siet;“ (Cato agr. 113,2)
  2. „Vinum emptoribus sine molestia quo modo admetiaris. labrum culleare illae rei facito: id habeat ad summum ansas IIII, uti transferri possitur.“ (Cato agr. 154)

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 "ansa"?
"ansa" is spelled A-N-S-A.
What does "ansa" mean?
As a noun, "ansa" means: Griff, Henkel
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Similar German words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Alts#99,450alam#99,441baas#99,513balm#99,523

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list