anstellen
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,718
in German word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
14
similar word pairs
anstellen is aGermanverb. It means: einen Gegenstand an einen anderen anlehnen Pronounced [ˈanˌʃtɛlən]. It ranks #7,718 in German word frequency. Often confused with Anteilen and anstellt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | anstellen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈanˌʃtɛlən] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #7,718 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for anstellen is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈanˌʃtɛlən]. Corpus data places it at rank #7,718 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 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 anstellen, with forms such as "annstellen", "ansetllen", and "ansstellen". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "Anteilen", "anstellt", "Antillen", 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 anstellen, spelled A-N-S-T-E-L-L-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1einen Gegenstand an einen anderen anlehnen
- 2jemandem eine Arbeitsstelle geben
- 3etwas vollbringen
- 4bei bestimmten abstrakten Substantiven (immer im Plural) so viel wie tätigen, unternehmen, also die durch das Substantiv ausgedrückte Tätigkeit zur Ausführung bringen
- 5etwas (oft, aber nicht immer, Schlimmes) mit einer Person oder einem Gegenstand tun, wobei die Person oder der Gegenstand das passive Opfer (oder „Opfer“) ist
- 6einen Streich spielen, ein Malheur verursachen
- 7Helvetismus sowie einschalten
- 8sich einer Warteschlange anschließen
- 9sich in bestimmter Weise einer Aufgabe beziehungsweise einer Herausforderung stellen
- 10wehleidig herumjammern; um Schmerzen, Krankheiten und sonstige Beeinträchtigen des Wohlbefindens viel Aufhebens machen
Synonyms
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: annstellen,ansetllen,ansstellen,ansteleln,anstelen,anstellenn,anstellne,anstlelen,ansttellen,antsellen,asntellen,nastellen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for anstellen
Misspelling Variants of "anstellen"
Frequency rank: #7,718 in German
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