anxiety
[æŋ̩zaɪəti]
The verdict
“anxiety” is uncommon German (frequency #77,676 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,676
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Angst, Besorgnis
Corpus desk
Index DE-anxiety · anxiety · German
anxiety · rank #77,676 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,676
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH anziehst
Nearest frequency peer: anziehst (+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 „anxiety“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Antons
Antons
22,329 corpus weight
- anvisierte
anvisierte
22,327 corpus weight
- anxiety
anxiety
22,325 corpus weight
- anziehst
anziehst
22,324 corpus weight
- Arbeitsmigr…
Arbeitsmigranten
22,322 corpus weight
- Arbeitsprog…
Arbeitsprogramm
22,321 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „anxiety“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | anxiety |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [æŋ̩zaɪəti] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #77,676 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „anxiety“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
anxiety is uncommon German at frequency #77,676 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [æŋ̩zaɪəti]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for anxiety in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is anxiety, spelled A-N-X-I-E-T-Y.
Definition
- 1Angst, Besorgnis
- 2Angstgefühl, Beklemmung
- 3starkes Bestreben
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how anxiety appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"As the clock on the mantelpiece struck eleven, Sir Percival knocked at the door, and came in. There was suppressed anxiety and agitation in every line of his face."
"In most discussions of anxiety it is customary to distinguish between anxiety and fear … According to this widely accepted view, fear is caused by a threatening and dangerous factor, which lends itself to definition and identification in "objective reality", whereas anxiety arises owing to the operation of psychic factors and forces which have no definit…
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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