act
[ækt]
The verdict
“act” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #9,500) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #9,500
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tat, Werk
Corpus desk
Index DE-act · act · German
act · rank #9,500 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,500
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH akademischen
Nearest frequency peer: akademischen (+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 „act“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Abraham
Abraham
90,504 corpus weight
- absolvieren
absolvieren
90,503 corpus weight
- act
act
90,501 corpus weight
- akademischen
akademischen
90,500 corpus weight
- Allee
Allee
90,499 corpus weight
- angehalten
angehalten
90,498 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „act“ 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 | act |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ækt] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #9,500 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „act“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for act is neighbouring look-alikes ("an", "am", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ækt]. Frequency #9,500 among 6,976 “A” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for act, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "an", "am", "AG", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 act, spelled A-C-T.
Definition
- 1Tat, Werk
- 2Gesetz
- 3Akt, Aufführung
This word in other languages
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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