Abo
[ˈabo]
The verdict
“Abo” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #7,563) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #7,563
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abonnement
Corpus desk
Index DE-abo · Abo · German
Abo · rank #7,563 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,563
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH abgesetzt
Nearest frequency peer: abgesetzt (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „Abo“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- überwacht
überwacht
92,442 corpus weight
- Abbildung
Abbildung
92,440 corpus weight
- abgesetzt
abgesetzt
92,439 corpus weight
- Abo
Abo
92,438 corpus weight
- aktiviert
aktiviert
92,436 corpus weight
- Aktivisten
Aktivisten
92,435 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „Abo“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
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 | Abo |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈabo] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #7,563 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „Abo“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Abo is neighbouring look-alikes ("an", "am", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈabo]. Frequency #7,563 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Abonnement".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Abo in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "an", "am", "AG", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Abo, spelled A-B-O.
Definition
- 1Abonnement
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Abo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ich wollte noch das Abo meiner Technikzeitschrift kündigen.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
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