Fang
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,791
in German word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Fang is aGermannoun. It means: das Fangen oder Jagen von Tieren Pronounced [faŋ]. It ranks #6,791 in German word frequency. Often confused with fg and fun.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Fang |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [faŋ] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #6,791 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Fang is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [faŋ]. Corpus data places it at rank #6,791 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for Fang, with forms such as "afng", "fagn", and "fangg". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fg", "fun", "faz", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 Fang, spelled F-A-N-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1das Fangen oder Jagen von Tieren
- 2erbeutetes Gut, besonders auf die Tierjagd bezogen
- 3Ausbeute, Erfolg
- 4Fangwerkzeuge von Raubtieren, insbesondere Reißzähne
- 5Klauen oder Krallenfuß von Greifvögeln
- 6Einrichtungen und Mechanismen, die freie Handlungen unterbinden
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: afng,fagn,fangg,fanng,ffang,fnag
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Fang
Misspelling Variants of "Fang"
Frequency rank: #6,791 in German
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Nearby German words
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