Aas
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#30,417
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Aas is aGermannoun. It means: toter und meist verwesender Tierkörper Pronounced [aːs]. Often confused with an and am.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Aas |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aːs] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #30,417 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Aas is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aːs]. Corpus data places it at rank #30,417 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Aas 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, "an", "am", "ab", 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 Aas, spelled A-A-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1toter und meist verwesender Tierkörper
- 2Fleisch eines toten, verwesenden Tierkörpers
- 3Fleisch, das zum Anlocken von Tieren ausgelegt wird
- 4hinterhältige Person, gemeiner Mensch; Personenbezeichnung mit breiter Bedeutung, als Schimpfwort, misstrauisch-abweisend bis anerkennend
- 5ein Tier, das nicht hört
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Frequency rank: #30,417 in German
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