Akaba
[ˈakaba]
The verdict
“Akaba” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hafenstadt in Jordanien, am Golf von Akaba gelegen
Corpus desk
Index DE-akaba · Akaba · German
Akaba · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Akaba |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈakaba] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Akaba“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Akaba is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [ˈakaba]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Hafenstadt in Jordanien, am Golf von Akaba gelegen".
Akaba doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Akaba, spelled A-K-A-B-A.
Definition
- 1Hafenstadt in Jordanien, am Golf von Akaba gelegen
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Akaba appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Lawrence Vorgesetzte schienen seine Pläne im Stillen gebilligt zu haben, wenn sie ihn nicht sogar als perfekt verdeckten, auf eigene Verantwortung handelnden Agenten betrachteten – zumal die Befreiung Akabas unabhängig von Lawrence’ Plänen den von England kontrollierten Sinai von türkischer Bedrohung frei halten half.“
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.