Erkner
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The verdict
“Erkner” is uncommon German (frequency #69,186 among 4,632 “E” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,186
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine Stadt in Brandenburg, Deutschland
Corpus desk
Index DE-erkner · Erkner · German
Erkner · rank #69,186 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,186
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH erklärenden
Nearest frequency peer: erklärenden (-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 „Erkner“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- erhabener
erhabener
30,818 corpus weight
- erklärenden
erklärenden
30,816 corpus weight
- Erkner
Erkner
30,815 corpus weight
- Erneuerungen
Erneuerungen
30,814 corpus weight
- erschienenes
erschienenes
30,813 corpus weight
- erschöpften
erschöpften
30,812 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Erkner“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Erkner |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #69,186 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Erkner“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Erkner is uncommon German at frequency #69,186 among 4,632 “E” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "eine Stadt in Brandenburg, Deutschland".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Erkner, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Erkner, spelled E-R-K-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1eine Stadt in Brandenburg, Deutschland
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Erkner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Erkner liegt in Deutschlands Osten.
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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