Enkels
[ˈɛŋkl̩s]
The verdict
“Enkels” is uncommon German (frequency #58,720 among 4,632 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,720
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Enkel
Corpus desk
Index DE-enkels · Enkels · German
Enkels · rank #58,720 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,720
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH entbrannt
Nearest frequency peer: entbrannt (+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 „Enkels“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- emsig
emsig
41,284 corpus weight
- Endziel
Endziel
41,283 corpus weight
- Enkels
Enkels
41,281 corpus weight
- entbrannt
entbrannt
41,280 corpus weight
- Entität
Entität
41,279 corpus weight
- entpuppen
entpuppen
41,278 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Enkels“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Enkels |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈɛŋkl̩s] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #58,720 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Enkels“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Enkels is uncommon German at frequency #58,720 among 4,632 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈɛŋkl̩s]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Enkel".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Enkels, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Enkels, spelled E-N-K-E-L-S.
Definition
- 1Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Enkel
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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