ad
[ad]
The verdict
“ad” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #3,700) as a preposition. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #3,700
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - in Richtung auf, zu, nach, sowohl räumlich als auch Ziel der Handlung: ad + Substantiv entspricht oft dem Dativobjekt im Deutschen
Corpus desk
Index DE-ad · ad · German
ad · rank #3,700 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,700
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH Aachen
Nearest frequency peer: Aachen (-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 „ad“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- wählt
wählt
96,304 corpus weight
- üben
üben
96,303 corpus weight
- Aachen
Aachen
96,302 corpus weight
- ad
ad
96,301 corpus weight
- angesprochen
angesprochen
96,300 corpus weight
- angezeigt
angezeigt
96,299 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „ad“ 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 | ad |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Preposition |
| IPA | [ad] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #3,700 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „ad“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ad is neighbouring look-alikes ("an", "am", …), not just typos; it is apreposition pronounced [ad]. Frequency #3,700 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Gloss: "in Richtung auf, zu, nach, sowohl räumlich als auch Ziel der Handlung: ad + Substantiv entspricht oft dem Dativobjekt im Deutschen".
No generated misspelling entries exist for ad 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, 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, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is ad, spelled A-D.
Definition
- 1in Richtung auf, zu, nach, sowohl räumlich als auch Ziel der Handlung: ad + Substantiv entspricht oft dem Dativobjekt im Deutschen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ad appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ni voyajas a Lissabon.
Me donas medikamento a la seniorulo.
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.