ada
[ˈada]
The verdict
“ada” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #26,733) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #26,733
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - existieren; vorhanden sein
Corpus desk
Index DE-ada · ada · German
ada · rank #26,733 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,733
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH Achtsamkeit
Nearest frequency peer: Achtsamkeit (-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 „ada“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Abzweigung
Abzweigung
73,271 corpus weight
- abzüglich
abzüglich
73,270 corpus weight
- Achtsamkeit
Achtsamkeit
73,269 corpus weight
- ada
ada
73,268 corpus weight
- addition
addition
73,267 corpus weight
- Aktienmarkt
Aktienmarkt
73,266 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „ada“ 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 | ada |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈada] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #26,733 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „ada“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ada is neighbouring look-alikes ("an", "am", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [ˈada]. Frequency #26,733 among 6,976 “A” headwords. 4 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
ada doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. 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 documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is ada, spelled A-D-A.
Definition
- 1existieren; vorhanden sein
- 2haben, besitzen
- 3vorhanden sein
- 4stattfinden
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ada appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ada apa dengan Anda?
Kamu ada korek api?
Antonyms
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).