anstiften
[ˈanˌʃtɪftn̩]
The verdict
“anstiften” is uncommon German (frequency #96,652 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,652
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - jemanden zu etwas Bösem animieren
Corpus desk
Index DE-anstiften · anstiften · German
anstiften · rank #96,652 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,652
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH anthropogenen
Nearest frequency peer: anthropogenen (+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 „anstiften“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- anmuten
anmuten
3,353 corpus weight
- anschreit
anschreit
3,351 corpus weight
- anstiften
anstiften
3,349 corpus weight
- anthropogen…
anthropogenen
3,348 corpus weight
- antica
antica
3,347 corpus weight
- Antiquitäte…
Antiquitätenhändler
3,345 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „anstiften“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | anstiften |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈanˌʃtɪftn̩] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #96,652 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „anstiften“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
anstiften is uncommon German at frequency #96,652 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈanˌʃtɪftn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "jemanden zu etwas Bösem animieren".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for anstiften, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is anstiften, spelled A-N-S-T-I-F-T-E-N.
Definition
- 1jemanden zu etwas Bösem animieren
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how anstiften appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Jetzt aber, da sich all seine düsteren Prophezeiungen über die ›blutige Jezabel‹ und das Unheil, das sie durch ihre Leichtfertigkeit anstiften werde, in verblüffender Weise erfüllt und übertroffen haben, kehrt er im Mantel des Propheten nach Edinburgh zurück.“
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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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