ran
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,914
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
ran is anGermanadv. It means: in die Richtung zu einem Objekt und dabei auch zum Sprecher hin; auf den Sprechenden zu; in die Nähe einer Sache oder des Sprechers Pronounced [ʁan]. It ranks #3,914 in German word frequency. Often confused with re and Rb.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ran |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adv |
| IPA | [ʁan] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #3,914 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for ran is 3 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʁan]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,914 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for ran in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "re", "Rb", "Rn", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is ran, spelled R-A-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1in die Richtung zu einem Objekt und dabei auch zum Sprecher hin; auf den Sprechenden zu; in die Nähe einer Sache oder des Sprechers
- 2Teil einer Aufforderung, etwas zu tun
- 3auf den Sprechzeitpunkt oder einen anderen Zeitpunkt zu
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Frequency rank: #3,914 in German
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