Kanaken
[kaˈnaːkŋ̍]
The verdict
“Kanaken” is uncommon German (frequency #69,403 among 4,158 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,403
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Kanake
Corpus desk
Index DE-kanaken · Kanaken · German
Kanaken · rank #69,403 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,403
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH Kammerjäger
Nearest frequency peer: Kammerjäger (-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 „Kanaken“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Kajüte
Kajüte
30,601 corpus weight
- kall
kall
30,600 corpus weight
- Kammerjäger
Kammerjäger
30,599 corpus weight
- Kanaken
Kanaken
30,598 corpus weight
- Kantonalbank
Kantonalbank
30,597 corpus weight
- Karree
Karree
30,596 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Kanaken“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kanaken |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaˈnaːkŋ̍] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #69,403 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Kanaken“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Kanaken is uncommon German at frequency #69,403 among 4,158 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [kaˈnaːkŋ̍]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 7 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Kanaken in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Kanaken, spelled K-A-N-A-K-E-N.
Definition
- 1Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Kanake
- 2Dativ Singular des Substantivs Kanake
- 3Akkusativ Singular des Substantivs Kanake
- 4Nominativ Plural des Substantivs Kanake
- 5Genitiv Plural des Substantivs Kanake
- 6Dativ Plural des Substantivs Kanake
- 7Akkusativ Plural des Substantivs Kanake
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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