AfA
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The verdict
“AfA” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #45,743) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #45,743
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abkürzung für Absetzung für Abnutzungen
Corpus desk
Index DE-afa · AfA · German
AfA · rank #45,743 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,743
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH Akupunktur
Nearest frequency peer: Akupunktur (+2 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 „AfA“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- abtrocknen
abtrocknen
54,262 corpus weight
- Abwurf
Abwurf
54,261 corpus weight
- AfA
AfA
54,258 corpus weight
- Akupunktur
Akupunktur
54,256 corpus weight
- akzeptierst
akzeptierst
54,255 corpus weight
- alarmieren
alarmieren
54,254 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „AfA“ 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 | AfA |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #45,743 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „AfA“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for AfA is neighbouring look-alikes ("an", "am", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced […]. Frequency #45,743 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Abkürzung für Absetzung für Abnutzungen".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for AfA, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "an", "am", "AG", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is AfA, spelled A-F-A.
Definition
- 1Abkürzung für Absetzung für Abnutzungen
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how AfA appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Wie aus dem oben gezeigten Beispiel leicht zu ersehen ist, ist die degressive AfA nur bei längerer Nutzungsdauer von Interesse.“
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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