Anna
[aˈnaː]
The verdict
“Anna” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #1,870) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #1,870
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 1
- tracked misspelling
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ehemalige Münze und deren Geldwert in Indien, Pakistan und Sri Lanka
Corpus desk
Index DE-anna · Anna · German
Anna · rank #1,870 · 1 variant · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,870
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 1 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH Alkohol
Nearest frequency peer: Alkohol (-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 „Anna“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
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98,134 corpus weight
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Zweifel
98,133 corpus weight
- Alkohol
Alkohol
98,132 corpus weight
- Anna
Anna
98,131 corpus weight
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98,130 corpus weight
- Bund
Bund
98,129 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „Anna“ 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 | Anna |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aˈnaː] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,870 |
| Misspellings tracked | 1 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „Anna“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Anna is neighbouring look-alikes ("ans", "aua", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [aˈnaː]. Frequency #1,870 among 6,976 “A” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 1 likely wrong-spelling variant for Anna, including "anan". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ans", "aua", "any", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is Anna, spelled A-N-N-A.
Definition
- 1ehemalige Münze und deren Geldwert in Indien, Pakistan und Sri Lanka
- 2Bezeichnung verschiedener Gewichtseinheiten in Indien
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- anan
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Anna - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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).