EAN
The verdict
“EAN” is uncommon German (frequency #69,139 among 4,632 “E” headwords), classed as an abbreviation. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,139
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abkürzung für European Article Number
Corpus desk
Index DE-ean · EAN · German
EAN · rank #69,139 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,139
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH Ebern
Nearest frequency peer: Ebern (+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 „EAN“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- durchbohren
durchbohren
30,867 corpus weight
- durchgewunk…
durchgewunken
30,865 corpus weight
- durchschnei…
durchschneidet
30,864 corpus weight
- EAN
EAN
30,862 corpus weight
- Ebern
Ebern
30,861 corpus weight
- edelsten
edelsten
30,860 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „EAN“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | EAN |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #69,139 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „EAN“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
EAN is uncommon German at frequency #69,139 among 4,632 “E” headwords, classed as anabbreviation. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Abkürzung für European Article Number".
Zero misspellings are on record for EAN in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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. The correct German form is EAN, spelled E-A-N.
Definition
- 1Abkürzung für European Article Number
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how EAN appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Here can you see the EAN barcode.
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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