ago
[əˈɡəʊ]
The verdict
“ago” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #32,897) as an adverb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #32,897
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - vor
Corpus desk
Index DE-ago · ago · German
ago · rank #32,897 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,897
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH abwaschen
Nearest frequency peer: abwaschen (-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 „ago“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- abhaken
abhaken
67,107 corpus weight
- Absatzes
Absatzes
67,106 corpus weight
- abwaschen
abwaschen
67,105 corpus weight
- ago
ago
67,104 corpus weight
- Akademien
Akademien
67,103 corpus weight
- akzeptierten
akzeptierten
67,102 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „ago“ 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 | ago |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | [əˈɡəʊ] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #32,897 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „ago“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ago is neighbouring look-alikes ("an", "am", …), not just typos; it is anadverb pronounced [əˈɡəʊ]. Frequency #32,897 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Gloss: "vor".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for ago, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "an", "am", "at", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is ago, spelled A-G-O.
Definition
- 1vor
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ago appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
We met three years ago.
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).