ama
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The verdict
“ama” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #30,432) as an unknown. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #30,432
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs amar (unabhängig von Person und Numerus) Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs amar (unabhängig von Person und Numerus) Suchergebnisse in der Interlingua-Wikipedia für...
Corpus desk
Index DE-ama · ama · German
ama · rank #30,432 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,432
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH allerseits
Nearest frequency peer: allerseits (-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 „ama“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Ahrens
Ahrens
69,572 corpus weight
- allerbesten
allerbesten
69,571 corpus weight
- allerseits
allerseits
69,570 corpus weight
- ama
ama
69,569 corpus weight
- amore
amore
69,568 corpus weight
- Analsex
Analsex
69,567 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „ama“ 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 | ama |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Unknown |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #30,432 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „ama“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ama is neighbouring look-alikes ("an", "at", …), not just typos; it is anunknown pronounced […]. Frequency #30,432 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs amar (unabhängig von Person und Numerus) Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs amar (unabhängig von Person und Numerus) Suchergebnisse in der Interlingua-Wikipedia für...".
ama doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "an", "at", "as", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is ama, spelled A-M-A.
Definition
- 1Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs amar (unabhängig von Person und Numerus) Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs amar (unabhängig von Person und Numerus) Suchergebnisse in der Interlingua-Wikipedia für „ama“
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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