tankt
[taŋkt]
The verdict
“tankt” is uncommon German (frequency #69,758 among 2,684 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,758
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Plural Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs tanken
Corpus desk
Index DE-tankt · tankt · German
tankt · rank #69,758 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,758
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH taktlos
Nearest frequency peer: taktlos (-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 „tankt“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Taiwans
Taiwans
30,246 corpus weight
- taktlos
taktlos
30,244 corpus weight
- tankt
tankt
30,243 corpus weight
- Taro
Taro
30,241 corpus weight
- tastet
tastet
30,240 corpus weight
- tedesco
tedesco
30,238 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „tankt“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tankt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [taŋkt] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #69,758 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „tankt“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
tankt is uncommon German at frequency #69,758 among 2,684 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [taŋkt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for tankt, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is tankt, spelled T-A-N-K-T.
Definition
- 12. Person Plural Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs tanken
- 23. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs tanken
- 32. Person Plural Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs tanken
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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