wankt
[vaŋkt]
The verdict
“wankt” is uncommon German (frequency #68,869 among 2,930 “W” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,869
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Plural Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs wanken
Corpus desk
Index DE-wankt · wankt · German
wankt · rank #68,869 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,869
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH Walldürn
Nearest frequency peer: Walldürn (-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 „wankt“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Vulkanen
Vulkanen
31,135 corpus weight
- Waffeleisen
Waffeleisen
31,134 corpus weight
- Walldürn
Walldürn
31,133 corpus weight
- wankt
wankt
31,132 corpus weight
- warben
warben
31,131 corpus weight
- Warnhinweis
Warnhinweis
31,130 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „wankt“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wankt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [vaŋkt] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #68,869 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „wankt“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
wankt is uncommon German at frequency #68,869 among 2,930 “W” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [vaŋkt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for wankt, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is wankt, spelled W-A-N-K-T.
Definition
- 12. Person Plural Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs wanken
- 23. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs wanken
- 32. Person Plural Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs wanken
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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