antes

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/[…]/ verb

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The verdict

“antes” is uncommon German (frequency #99,468 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#99,468
frequency rank, German
6,976
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs ante

Corpus desk

Index DE-antes · antes · German

antes · rank #99,468 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #99,468
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,976
  • PHOTO-FINISH ansa

Nearest frequency peer: ansa (-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 „antes“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „antes“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for antes
PropertyValue
Headwordantes
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[…]
Letters5
Frequency rank#99,468
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „antes“ im Deutschen

Diese Skala geht vom Kern des Alltagdeutschen (links) bis zum seltenen Langschwanz (rechts).antesfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „ansa“ (#99,467), „Annoncen“ (#99,466), „Antizionismus“ (#99,470). Unter 6,976 „A“-Lemmata liegt „antes“ bei #99,468. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

antes is uncommon German at frequency #99,468 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs ante".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for antes, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is antes, spelled A-N-T-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs ante

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "antes"?
"antes" is spelled A-N-T-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "antes" mean?
As a verb, "antes" means: 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs ante
How do you pronounce "antes"?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "antes", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Baran#99,527Becht#99,542beran#99,556Beter#99,567

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list