area
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The verdict
“area” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #13,094) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #13,094
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - bestimmtes geographisches Gebiet
Corpus desk
Index DE-area · area · German
area · rank #13,094 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,094
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH anzugreifen
Nearest frequency peer: anzugreifen (-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 „area“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- ankam
ankam
86,910 corpus weight
- Annahmen
Annahmen
86,909 corpus weight
- anzugreifen
anzugreifen
86,908 corpus weight
- area
area
86,907 corpus weight
- aufgesetzt
aufgesetzt
86,906 corpus weight
- Aufrufen
Aufrufen
86,905 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „area“ 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 | area |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #13,094 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „area“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for area is neighbouring look-alikes ("Art", "Arm", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced […]. Frequency #13,094 among 6,976 “A” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for area, with forms such as "aera", "arae", and "arrea". 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, "Art", "Arm", "arg", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is area, spelled A-R-E-A.
Definition
- 1bestimmtes geographisches Gebiet
- 2Ausmaß eines umgrenzten Bereichs
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how area appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In this area nature and civilization maintain a perfect balance.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aera
- arae
- arrea
- raea
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of area - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "area", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).