Antares
[anˈtaːʁɛs]
The verdict
“Antares” is uncommon German (frequency #82,494 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,494
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - roter Riesenstern und Hauptstern im Sternbild des Skorpions
Corpus desk
Index DE-antares · Antares · German
Antares · rank #82,494 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,494
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH Ansehens
Nearest frequency peer: Ansehens (-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 „Antares“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Anrufern
Anrufern
17,510 corpus weight
- anschaute
anschaute
17,509 corpus weight
- Ansehens
Ansehens
17,508 corpus weight
- Antares
Antares
17,507 corpus weight
- anziehenden
anziehenden
17,505 corpus weight
- Aquarellen
Aquarellen
17,504 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Antares“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Antares |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [anˈtaːʁɛs] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #82,494 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Antares“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Antares is uncommon German at frequency #82,494 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [anˈtaːʁɛs]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "roter Riesenstern und Hauptstern im Sternbild des Skorpions".
Antares has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Antares, spelled A-N-T-A-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1roter Riesenstern und Hauptstern im Sternbild des Skorpions
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Antares appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Antares bildet mit einem unauffälligen Begleiter ein Doppelsternsystem.“
Wegen seiner roten Farbe und der Nähe zur Ekliptik kann Antares leicht mit dem roten Planeten Mars (Ares) verwechselt werden.
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); 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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