anzapfen
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#53,468
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
anzapfen is aGermanverb. It means: etwas durch einen Stich öffnen, so dass der Inhalt herausfließen kann (besonders ein Fass) Pronounced [ˈanˌt͡sap͡fn̩].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | anzapfen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈanˌt͡sap͡fn̩] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #53,468 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for anzapfen is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈanˌt͡sap͡fn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #53,468 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for anzapfen in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 anzapfen, spelled A-N-Z-A-P-F-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1etwas durch einen Stich öffnen, so dass der Inhalt herausfließen kann (besonders ein Fass)
- 2etwas (Telefon-, Wasserleitung, Computer) so manipulieren, dass etwas unbemerkt mitgehört/mitgelesen/mitgenutzt werden kann
- 3jemanden ausfragen, um bestimmte Informationen zu erhalten
- 4jemanden um Geld bitten, von jemandem Geld erhalten wollen
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #53,468 in German
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