aka
[eikeiˈʔei]
The verdict
“aka” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #9,134) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #9,134
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - also known as ‚auch bekannt als‘
Corpus desk
Index DE-aka · aka · German
aka · rank #9,134 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,134
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH absetzen
Nearest frequency peer: absetzen (-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 „aka“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- abgelegt
abgelegt
90,869 corpus weight
- absetzen
absetzen
90,868 corpus weight
- aka
aka
90,867 corpus weight
- Allerlei
Allerlei
90,866 corpus weight
- angebliche
angebliche
90,865 corpus weight
- angehören
angehören
90,864 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „aka“ 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 | aka |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | [eikeiˈʔei] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #9,134 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „aka“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for aka is neighbouring look-alikes ("an", "am", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced [eikeiˈʔei]. Frequency #9,134 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Gloss: "also known as ‚auch bekannt als‘".
No generated misspelling entries exist for aka in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is aka, spelled A-K-A.
Definition
- 1also known as ‚auch bekannt als‘
Synonyms
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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