AHS
[aːhaːˈʔɛs]
The verdict
“AHS” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #31,921) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #31,921
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Allgemeinbildende Höhere Schule
Corpus desk
Index DE-ahs · AHS · German
AHS · rank #31,921 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,921
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH Ahrweiler
Nearest frequency peer: Ahrweiler (-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 „AHS“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Absolvent
Absolvent
68,082 corpus weight
- Ahrweiler
Ahrweiler
68,081 corpus weight
- AHS
AHS
68,080 corpus weight
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aid
68,079 corpus weight
- Allahs
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68,078 corpus weight
- Allerheilig…
Allerheiligen
68,077 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „AHS“ 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 | AHS |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | [aːhaːˈʔɛs] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #31,921 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „AHS“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for AHS is neighbouring look-alikes ("an", "am", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced [aːhaːˈʔɛs]. Frequency #31,921 among 6,976 “A” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for AHS in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. 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 entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is AHS, spelled A-H-S.
Definition
- 1Allgemeinbildende Höhere Schule
- 2historisch: Adolf-Hitler-Schule
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how AHS appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Wer in die AHS übertritt, realisiert die von der Volksschule zertifizierte Eignung für den Besuch einer AHS und hat damit, wenn den Anforderungen zumindest im Wesentlichen entsprochen wird, die Aussicht auf eine garantierte, durchgehende Schullaufbahn von acht Jahren.“
„Sowohl in den BHS als auch den AHS machen die Mädchen unter den Lese-Spitzenschüler/innen deutliche Mehrheiten aus: …“
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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