Anschaffung
[ˈanʃafʊŋ]
The verdict
“Anschaffung” has 16 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #11,590. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,590
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Erwerb von etwas
Corpus desk
Index DE-anschaffung · Anschaffung · German
Anschaffung · rank #11,590 · 16 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,590
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH Apotheken
Nearest frequency peer: Apotheken (+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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „Anschaffung“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- angelegten
angelegten
88,414 corpus weight
- Anhörung
Anhörung
88,413 corpus weight
- Anschaffung
Anschaffung
88,411 corpus weight
- Apotheken
Apotheken
88,410 corpus weight
- Apparat
Apparat
88,409 corpus weight
- army
army
88,408 corpus weight
What this shows „Anschaffung“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Anschaffung |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈanʃafʊŋ] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #11,590 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Anschaffung“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around Anschaffung (IPA [ˈanʃafʊŋ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,590 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for Anschaffung, with forms such as "ancshaffung", "annschaffung", and "anscahffung". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Anschauung", "Anschaffungen", "anschaffen", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Anschaffung, spelled A-N-S-C-H-A-F-F-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1Erwerb von etwas
- 2das neu Erworbene
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Anschaffung appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Anschaffung der neuen Schuhe hat uns viel Zeit gekostet.
Diese Anschaffungen für die neue Wohnung waren dringend notwendig.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ancshaffung
- annschaffung
- anscahffung
- anscchaffung
- anschaffnug
- anschaffugn
- anschaffungg
- anschaffunng
- anschafufng
- anschafung
- anschfafung
- anschhaffung
- anshcaffung
- ansschaffung
- asnchaffung
- naschaffung
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Anschaffung - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Anschaffung", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).