anschmiegen
[ˈanˌʃmiːɡn̩]
The verdict
“anschmiegen” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sich zärtlich irgendwo herandrücken oder anlehnen
Corpus desk
Index DE-anschmiegen · anschmiegen · German
anschmiegen · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | anschmiegen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈanˌʃmiːɡn̩] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „anschmiegen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
anschmiegen is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈanˌʃmiːɡn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for anschmiegen, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 anschmiegen, spelled A-N-S-C-H-M-I-E-G-E-N.
Definition
- 1sich zärtlich irgendwo herandrücken oder anlehnen
- 2etwas zärtlich irgendwo herandrücken oder anlehnen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how anschmiegen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bernd war glücklich, als er mit Suleika im Bett lag und spürte, wie sie sich an ihn anschmiegte.
„Dieser Eingang hatte ein Vordach, von zwei Säulen getragen, an deren eine er sich anschmiegte, um einigermaßen vor der Nässe geschützt, doch in der Nähe bleiben zu können, um einen der abfahrenden Wagen genau zu beobachten.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.