knacks
[knaks]
The verdict
“knacks” is uncommon German (frequency #71,522 among 4,158 “K” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,522
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - bezeichnet das kurze Geräusch, wenn etwas ab- oder zerbricht
Corpus desk
Index DE-knacks · knacks · German
knacks · rank #71,522 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,522
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH knackte
Nearest frequency peer: knackte (+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 „knacks“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Klans
Klans
28,482 corpus weight
- Klinken
Klinken
28,481 corpus weight
- knacks
knacks
28,479 corpus weight
- knackte
knackte
28,478 corpus weight
- Knotenpunkte
Knotenpunkte
28,477 corpus weight
- Koeffizient
Koeffizient
28,476 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „knacks“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | knacks |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | [knaks] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #71,522 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „knacks“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
knacks is uncommon German at frequency #71,522 among 4,158 “K” headwords, classed as aninterjection, transcribed [knaks]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "bezeichnet das kurze Geräusch, wenn etwas ab- oder zerbricht".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for knacks, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is knacks, spelled K-N-A-C-K-S.
Definition
- 1bezeichnet das kurze Geräusch, wenn etwas ab- oder zerbricht
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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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