herangekommen
[hɛˈʁanɡəˌkɔmən]
The verdict
“herangekommen” is uncommon German (frequency #84,093 among 3,372 “H” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,093
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partizip Perfekt des Verbs herankommen
Corpus desk
Index DE-herangekommen · herangekommen · German
herangekommen · rank #84,093 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,093
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH Heraldik
Nearest frequency peer: Heraldik (-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 „herangekommen“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- hellbraune
hellbraune
15,912 corpus weight
- hemmungslose
hemmungslose
15,911 corpus weight
- Heraldik
Heraldik
15,909 corpus weight
- herangekomm…
herangekommen
15,908 corpus weight
- Hervé
Hervé
15,906 corpus weight
- hinge
hinge
15,904 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „herangekommen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | herangekommen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [hɛˈʁanɡəˌkɔmən] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #84,093 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „herangekommen“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
herangekommen is uncommon German at frequency #84,093 among 3,372 “H” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [hɛˈʁanɡəˌkɔmən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partizip Perfekt des Verbs herankommen".
herangekommen has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is herangekommen, spelled H-E-R-A-N-G-E-K-O-M-M-E-N.
Definition
- 1Partizip Perfekt des Verbs herankommen
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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