apa
[ˈɑpɑ]
The verdict
“apa” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #15,025) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #15,025
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Säugetier aus der Unterordnung Anthropoidea in der Ordnung der Primaten; Affe
Corpus desk
Index DE-apa · apa · German
apa · rank #15,025 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,025
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH Anmeldungen
Nearest frequency peer: Anmeldungen (-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 „apa“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Anfall
Anfall
84,979 corpus weight
- angehoben
angehoben
84,978 corpus weight
- Anmeldungen
Anmeldungen
84,977 corpus weight
- apa
apa
84,976 corpus weight
- Armeen
Armeen
84,975 corpus weight
- attraktiven
attraktiven
84,974 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „apa“ 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 | apa |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈɑpɑ] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #15,025 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „apa“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for apa is neighbouring look-alikes ("at", "as", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈɑpɑ]. Frequency #15,025 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Säugetier aus der Unterordnung Anthropoidea in der Ordnung der Primaten; Affe".
Zero misspellings are on record for apa in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "at", "as", "AZ", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is apa, spelled A-P-A.
Definition
- 1Säugetier aus der Unterordnung Anthropoidea in der Ordnung der Primaten; Affe
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how apa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Apan habbaþ lengran earmas þanne menn.
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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