aah
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The verdict
“aah” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #42,306) as an adverb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #42,306
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - auch
Corpus desk
Index DE-aah · aah · German
aah · rank #42,306 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,306
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH abbricht
Nearest frequency peer: abbricht (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “aah”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- übergreifen…
übergreifende
57,699 corpus weight
- überprüfte
überprüfte
57,698 corpus weight
- aah
aah
57,695 corpus weight
- abbricht
abbricht
57,694 corpus weight
- abgelaufene
abgelaufene
57,693 corpus weight
- abgesetzten
abgesetzten
57,692 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “aah” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aah |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #42,306 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “aah” sits in German frequency
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for aah is neighbouring look-alikes ("an", "am", …), not just typos; it is anadverb pronounced […]. Frequency #42,306 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Gloss: "auch".
aah doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "an", "am", "ab", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is aah, spelled A-A-H.
Definition
- 1auch
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how aah appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Immer fort ofs Zachenhaus, valteri valta,
„On gefällt mer'sch racht, do bleib ich aah
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "aah", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.