aqua
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The verdict
“aqua” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #24,610) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #24,610
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Wasser n
Corpus desk
Index DE-aqua · aqua · German
aqua · rank #24,610 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,610
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH Anzüge
Nearest frequency peer: Anzüge (-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 „aqua“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Antlitz
Antlitz
75,394 corpus weight
- antrat
antrat
75,393 corpus weight
- Anzüge
Anzüge
75,392 corpus weight
- aqua
aqua
75,391 corpus weight
- Arbeitskoll…
Arbeitskollegen
75,389 corpus weight
- article
article
75,388 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „aqua“ 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 | aqua |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #24,610 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „aqua“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for aqua is neighbouring look-alikes ("auf", "aus", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced […]. Frequency #24,610 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Wasser n".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for aqua, with forms such as "aqau", "aqqua", and "auqa". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "auf", "aus", "aua", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is aqua, spelled A-Q-U-A.
Definition
- 1Wasser n
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aqau
- aqqua
- auqa
- qaua
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of aqua - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "aqua", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).