amen
[ˈaːmɛn]
The verdict
“amen” has 5 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #13,303. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,303
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Akklamationsformel im jüdischen, christlichen und islamischen Gottesdienst, die als Bekräftigung am Ende eines Gebets, Segens, einer Schriftlesung oder Predigt dient
Corpus desk
Index DE-amen · amen · German
amen · rank #13,303 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,303
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH Albtraum
Nearest frequency peer: Albtraum (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “amen”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- ableiten
ableiten
86,702 corpus weight
- Akzente
Akzente
86,700 corpus weight
- Albtraum
Albtraum
86,699 corpus weight
- amen
amen
86,698 corpus weight
- Anhaltspunk…
Anhaltspunkte
86,697 corpus weight
- Animation
Animation
86,696 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “amen” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | amen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | [ˈaːmɛn] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #13,303 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “amen” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around amen (IPA [ˈaːmɛn]), anadverb. Corpus frequency is #13,303 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Akklamationsformel im jüdischen, christlichen und islamischen Gottesdienst, die als Bekräftigung am Ende eines Gebets, Segens, einer Schriftlesung oder Predigt dient".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for amen, with forms such as "aemn", "amenn", and "ammen". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "an", "Amt", "are", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 amen, spelled A-M-E-N.
Definition
- 1Akklamationsformel im jüdischen, christlichen und islamischen Gottesdienst, die als Bekräftigung am Ende eines Gebets, Segens, einer Schriftlesung oder Predigt dient
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how amen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Und Sara sagte zusammen mit ihm: Amen.“
„Gott möge dir ewigen Ruhm schenken und dich reich mit seinem Segen belohnen. Denn in der Not unseres Volkes hast du dein Leben nicht geschont; nein, du hast entschlossen unseren Untergang von uns abgewehrt, du bist vor unserem Gott auf geradem Weg gegangen. Und alles Volk rief: Amen, amen.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aemn
- amenn
- ammen
- amne
- maen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of amen - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "amen" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "an". View pair
- 5 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #13,303 among German headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more German words in the "A" letter cohort. A–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.