aF
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The verdict
“aF” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #13,997) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #13,997
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abkürzung für alte Fassung
Corpus desk
Index DE-af · aF · German
aF · rank #13,997 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,997
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH Abneigung
Nearest frequency peer: Abneigung (-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 „aF“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Abneigung
Abneigung
86,005 corpus weight
- aF
aF
86,004 corpus weight
- aggressiven
aggressiven
86,003 corpus weight
- Aliens
Aliens
86,002 corpus weight
- Amanda
Amanda
86,001 corpus weight
- Amerikanern
Amerikanern
86,000 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „aF“ 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 | aF |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #13,997 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „aF“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for aF is neighbouring look-alikes ("an", "am", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced […]. Frequency #13,997 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Abkürzung für alte Fassung".
No misspelling variants are generated for aF in our index, 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.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is aF, spelled A-F.
Definition
- 1Abkürzung für alte Fassung
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how aF appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Siehe Artikel 3 Grundgesetz aF.
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.