ages
[ˈeɪdʒɪz]
The verdict
“ages” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #48,682) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #48,682
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plural des Substantivs age
Corpus desk
Index DE-ages · ages · German
ages · rank #48,682 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,682
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH Afrikanern
Nearest frequency peer: Afrikanern (-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 „ages“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- abnormal
abnormal
51,322 corpus weight
- Adressat
Adressat
51,321 corpus weight
- Afrikanern
Afrikanern
51,320 corpus weight
- ages
ages
51,319 corpus weight
- ahnungslose
ahnungslose
51,317 corpus weight
- Ahnungslosi…
Ahnungslosigkeit
51,316 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „ages“ 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 | ages |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈeɪdʒɪz] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #48,682 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „ages“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ages is neighbouring look-alikes ("as", "als", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈeɪdʒɪz]. Frequency #48,682 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Plural des Substantivs age".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for ages, with forms such as "aegs", "agess", and "agges". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "as", "als", "aus", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is ages, spelled A-G-E-S.
Definition
- 1Plural des Substantivs age
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aegs
- agess
- agges
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ages - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).