anstehen
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#17,802
in German word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
17
similar word pairs
anstehen is aGermanverb. It means: sich an das Ende einer Schlange stellen und warten, um an die Reihe zu kommen Pronounced [ˈanˌʃteːən]. Often confused with ansteht and aussehen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | anstehen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈanˌʃteːən] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #17,802 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for anstehen is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈanˌʃteːən]. Corpus data places it at rank #17,802 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for anstehen, with forms such as "annstehen", "ansethen", and "ansstehen". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "ansteht", "aussehen", "ausgehen", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is anstehen, spelled A-N-S-T-E-H-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1sich an das Ende einer Schlange stellen und warten, um an die Reihe zu kommen
- 2aktuell sein, getan werden müssen
- 3zu Gesicht stehen, einen bestimmten Eindruck machen
- 4festgelegt, angesetzt sein
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: annstehen,ansethen,ansstehen,ansteehn,anstehenn,anstehhen,anstehne,anstheen,ansttehen,antsehen,asntehen,nastehen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for anstehen
Misspelling Variants of "anstehen"
Frequency rank: #17,802 in German
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