Kanacken
[kaˈnakn̩]
The verdict
“Kanacken” is uncommon German (frequency #68,383 among 4,158 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,383
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Kanacke
Corpus desk
Index DE-kanacken · Kanacken · German
Kanacken · rank #68,383 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,383
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH Kanonenfutter
Nearest frequency peer: Kanonenfutter (+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 „Kanacken“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Kairos
Kairos
31,621 corpus weight
- Kalbfleisch
Kalbfleisch
31,620 corpus weight
- Kanacken
Kanacken
31,618 corpus weight
- Kanonenfutt…
Kanonenfutter
31,617 corpus weight
- Karben
Karben
31,615 corpus weight
- Karikaturist
Karikaturist
31,614 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Kanacken“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kanacken |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaˈnakn̩] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #68,383 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Kanacken“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Kanacken is uncommon German at frequency #68,383 among 4,158 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [kaˈnakn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 7 senses are on record.
Kanacken doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 Kanacken, spelled K-A-N-A-C-K-E-N.
Definition
- 1Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Kanacke
- 2Dativ Singular des Substantivs Kanacke
- 3Akkusativ Singular des Substantivs Kanacke
- 4Nominativ Plural des Substantivs Kanacke
- 5Genitiv Plural des Substantivs Kanacke
- 6Dativ Plural des Substantivs Kanacke
- 7Akkusativ Plural des Substantivs Kanacke
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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