Kanacke
[kaˈnakə]
The verdict
“Kanacke” is uncommon German (frequency #95,794 among 4,158 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,794
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ausländer südländischer Herkunft
Corpus desk
Index DE-kanacke · Kanacke · German
Kanacke · rank #95,794 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,794
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH kampfbereit
Nearest frequency peer: kampfbereit (-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 „Kanacke“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Kaisertums
Kaisertums
4,210 corpus weight
- Kalli
Kalli
4,209 corpus weight
- kampfbereit
kampfbereit
4,208 corpus weight
- Kanacke
Kanacke
4,207 corpus weight
- Kapillaren
Kapillaren
4,206 corpus weight
- Karthager
Karthager
4,205 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Kanacke“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kanacke |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaˈnakə] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #95,794 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Kanacke“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Kanacke is uncommon German at frequency #95,794 among 4,158 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [kaˈnakə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ausländer südländischer Herkunft".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Kanacke, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Kanacke, spelled K-A-N-A-C-K-E.
Definition
- 1Ausländer südländischer Herkunft
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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