aim
[eɪm]
The verdict
“aim” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #39,770) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #39,770
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ziel, Zweck, Absicht
Corpus desk
Index DE-aim · aim · German
aim · rank #39,770 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,770
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH Akkreditierung
Nearest frequency peer: Akkreditierung (+2 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 „aim“
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60,229 corpus weight
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What this shows Balken platzieren „aim“ 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 | aim |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [eɪm] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #39,770 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „aim“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for aim is neighbouring look-alikes ("an", "am", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [eɪm]. Frequency #39,770 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Ziel, Zweck, Absicht".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for aim, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is aim, spelled A-I-M.
Definition
- 1Ziel, Zweck, Absicht
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how aim appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"As the weeks went by, my interest in him and my curiosity as to his aims in life, gradually deepened and increased."
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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