am
[am]
The verdict
“am” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #47) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #47
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Angabe eines Zeitpunkts - wann?
Corpus desk
Index DE-am · am · German
am · rank #47 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #47
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH einen
Nearest frequency peer: einen (-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 „am“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- was
was
99,957 corpus weight
- werden
werden
99,956 corpus weight
- einen
einen
99,955 corpus weight
- am
am
99,954 corpus weight
- man
man
99,953 corpus weight
- um
um
99,952 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „am“ 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 | am |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | [am] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #47 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „am“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for am is neighbouring look-alikes ("an", "at", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced [am]. Frequency #47 among 6,976 “A” headwords. 5 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Zero misspellings are on record for am in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "an", "at", "as", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is am, spelled A-M.
Definition
- 1Angabe eines Zeitpunkts - wann?
- 2in Wendungen, oft übertragen Angabe eines Ortes - wo? - am kann nicht durch „an dem“ ersetzt werden
- 3Angabe der geographischen Lage (einer Stadt)
- 4steht vor dem Superlativ
- 5gibt die Verlaufsform an
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how am appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
am Donnerstag, am 1.11.2005, am Anfang des Theaterstücks
Am Ende werden wir wissen, ob sie am Ziel ihrer Wünsche sind, oder nicht.
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.