ANA
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The verdict
“ANA” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #12,224) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #12,224
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Kraftfahrzeugkennzeichen für Annaberg, Annaberg-Buchholz
Corpus desk
Index DE-ana · ANA · German
ANA · rank #12,224 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,224
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH alba
Nearest frequency peer: alba (-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 „ANA“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- abstellen
abstellen
87,780 corpus weight
- Abweichungen
Abweichungen
87,779 corpus weight
- alba
alba
87,778 corpus weight
- ANA
ANA
87,777 corpus weight
- Anatomie
Anatomie
87,776 corpus weight
- anfühlt
anfühlt
87,775 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „ANA“ 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 | ANA |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #12,224 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „ANA“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ANA is neighbouring look-alikes ("at", "as", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced […]. Frequency #12,224 among 6,976 “A” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ANA, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "at", "as", "AP", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is ANA, spelled A-N-A.
Definition
- 1Kraftfahrzeugkennzeichen für Annaberg, Annaberg-Buchholz
- 2antinukleäre Antikörper
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ANA appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Auf der Autobahn sah er mehrere Autos mit dem Kfz-Kennzeichen ANA.
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).