ama vs at, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“ama” is an unknown and “at” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#30,432
“ama” frequency rank: #1,799
“at” frequency rank: 32231
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	ama	at
Definition	Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs amar (unabhängig von Person und Numerus) Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs amar (unabhängig von Person und Numerus) Suchergebnisse in der Interlingua-Wikipedia für „ama“	großer Einhufer; Pferd

Letter map: ama vs at

Shared letters muted; letters that set ama and at apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.

3 ch

ama

2 ch

Part-of-speech tell for ama / at

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: ama is anunknown and atanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 32231, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

ama is recorded at frequency rank #30,432, classified as anunknown, pronounced […]. at is at rank #1,799, tagged as anoun, pronounced [ɑt].

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 32231, this pair ranks #1,711,946 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of ama vs at

Shared letters: a. Private to "ama": m. Private to "at": t.

"ama" · 3 letters · shape VCV · "at" · 2 letters · shape VC

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "ama" and "at" be used interchangeably?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "ama" is an unknown and "at" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Frequency check: "ama" vs "at" - which ranks higher?

"at" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,799 in our German list, against #30,432 for "ama". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "ama" and "at".

Full dictionary entry for "ama" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "at" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #1,711,946 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"ama" and "at" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "ama vs puzzles". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #1,711,946 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.