am
Letters
2 characters
Frequency Rank
#47
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
am is anGermanabbrev. It means: Angabe eines Zeitpunkts - wann? Pronounced [am]. It ranks #47 in German word frequency. Often confused with an and at.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | am |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbrev |
| IPA | [am] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #47 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for am is 2 letters long, classified as anabbrev, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [am]. Corpus data places it at rank #47 in overall German word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for am in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "an", "at", "as", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is am, spelled A-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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
Synonyms
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Frequency rank: #47 in German
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