AI
[aːˈʔiː]
The verdict
“AI” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #9,316) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #9,316
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - artifizielle Intelligenz
Corpus desk
Index DE-ai · AI · German
AI · rank #9,316 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,316
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH Absage
Nearest frequency peer: Absage (-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 „AI“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Abi
Abi
90,688 corpus weight
- Abriss
Abriss
90,687 corpus weight
- Absage
Absage
90,686 corpus weight
- AI
AI
90,685 corpus weight
- angeklagt
angeklagt
90,684 corpus weight
- Anhängern
Anhängern
90,683 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „AI“ 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 | AI |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | [aːˈʔiː] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #9,316 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „AI“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for AI is neighbouring look-alikes ("an", "am", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced [aːˈʔiː]. Frequency #9,316 among 6,976 “A” headwords. 4 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
AI doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "an", "am", "at", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is AI, spelled A-I.
Definition
- 1artifizielle Intelligenz
- 2Amtsinspektor
- 3Amnesty International
- 4Appenzell Innerrhoden
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how AI appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hast du das Auto mit dem Kennzeichen AI gesehen? Das ist selten, denn in Zürich sieht man sie wenig.
Synonyms
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.