AG
[aːˈɡeː]
The verdict
“AG” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #1,252) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #1,252
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Kurzwort für Aktiengesellschaft
Corpus desk
Index DE-ag · AG · German
AG · rank #1,252 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,252
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH zusätzlich
Nearest frequency peer: zusätzlich (-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 „AG“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Winter
Winter
98,752 corpus weight
- you
you
98,751 corpus weight
- zusätzlich
zusätzlich
98,750 corpus weight
- AG
AG
98,749 corpus weight
- aktuelle
aktuelle
98,748 corpus weight
- benutzt
benutzt
98,746 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „AG“ 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 | AG |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | [aːˈɡeː] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #1,252 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „AG“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for AG is neighbouring look-alikes ("an", "am", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced [aːˈɡeː]. Frequency #1,252 among 6,976 “A” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for AG, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "an", "am", "at", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is AG, spelled A-G.
Definition
- 1Kurzwort für Aktiengesellschaft
- 2Kurzwort für Arbeitsgemeinschaft
- 3Die offizielle Abkürzung von Aargau lautet AG.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how AG appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Das Bayerische Kreditinstitut AG hat heute Konkurs anmelden müssen.
„So hat die AG Korpus in der ersten und zweiten Amtsperiode von 2006 bis 2016 in rund 960 Erhebungen 510 Fallbeispiele untersucht.“
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.