AMD
[aːʔɛmˈdeː]
The verdict
“AMD” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #14,490) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,490
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - altersabhängige Makuladegeneration
Corpus desk
Index DE-amd · AMD · German
AMD · rank #14,490 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,490
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH Altona
Nearest frequency peer: Altona (-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 „AMD“
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- Altona
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85,512 corpus weight
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85,511 corpus weight
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85,510 corpus weight
- angestrebt
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What this shows Balken platzieren „AMD“ 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 | AMD |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | [aːʔɛmˈdeː] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #14,490 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „AMD“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for AMD is neighbouring look-alikes ("an", "at", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced [aːʔɛmˈdeː]. Frequency #14,490 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Gloss: "altersabhängige Makuladegeneration".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for AMD, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. 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 carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is AMD, spelled A-M-D.
Definition
- 1altersabhängige Makuladegeneration
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how AMD appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Das Augenleiden AMD macht keine Schmerzen.“
This word in other languages
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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