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kanns

German, contraction/kans/

kanns is spelled K-A-N-N-S (5 letters) and appears 6.0 times per million words in written German, the 10,637th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kanns is a German contraction meaning “contraction of kann + es” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does kanns mean in English?

contraction

  1. 1

    contraction of kann + es

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Forms of kanns

  • kann's alternative

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce kanns?

  • /kans/

Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is kanns in German?

kanns appears 6.0 times per million words in written German.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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