Ann
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The verdict
“Ann” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #6,144) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #6,144
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - weiblicher Vorname, der insbesondere als erster Teil von Doppelvornamen vorkommt
Corpus desk
Index DE-ann · Ann · German
Ann · rank #6,144 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,144
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH anhören
Nearest frequency peer: anhören (-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 „Ann“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Amtszeit
Amtszeit
93,860 corpus weight
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angeben
93,859 corpus weight
- anhören
anhören
93,858 corpus weight
- Ann
Ann
93,857 corpus weight
- annähernd
annähernd
93,856 corpus weight
- Anpassung
Anpassung
93,855 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „Ann“ 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 | Ann |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #6,144 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „Ann“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Ann is neighbouring look-alikes ("at", "as", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced […]. Frequency #6,144 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Gloss: "weiblicher Vorname, der insbesondere als erster Teil von Doppelvornamen vorkommt".
Ann has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "at", "as", "AP", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Ann, spelled A-N-N.
Definition
- 1weiblicher Vorname, der insbesondere als erster Teil von Doppelvornamen vorkommt
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Ann appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ich habe Ann seit dem Abitur nicht mehr gesehen.
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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