abu
[ʔàbù]
The verdict
“abu” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #8,820) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #8,820
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - konkreter Gegenstand, welcher nicht näher bezeichnet ist; Sache, Ding
Corpus desk
Index DE-abu · abu · German
abu · rank #8,820 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,820
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH abschneiden
Nearest frequency peer: abschneiden (-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 „abu“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- abgebildet
abgebildet
91,184 corpus weight
- abgeschnitt…
abgeschnitten
91,183 corpus weight
- abschneiden
abschneiden
91,182 corpus weight
- abu
abu
91,181 corpus weight
- Amtes
Amtes
91,180 corpus weight
- AP
AP
91,179 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „abu“ 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 | abu |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ʔàbù] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #8,820 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „abu“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for abu is neighbouring look-alikes ("an", "am", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ʔàbù]. Frequency #8,820 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Gloss: "konkreter Gegenstand, welcher nicht näher bezeichnet ist; Sache, Ding".
abu has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. 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.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is abu, spelled A-B-U.
Definition
- 1konkreter Gegenstand, welcher nicht näher bezeichnet ist; Sache, Ding
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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