ASAP
The verdict
“ASAP” is uncommon German (frequency #77,684 among 113,935 “A” headwords), classed as an abbreviation. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,684
- frequency rank, German
- 113,935
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Abkürzung für as soon as possible ‚so schnell wie möglich‘, ‚schnellstmöglich‘
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ASAP |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #77,684 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ASAP” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
ASAP is uncommon German at frequency #77,684 among 113,935 “A” headwords, classed as anabbreviation. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Abkürzung für as soon as possible ‚so schnell wie möglich‘, ‚schnellstmöglich‘".
No misspelling variants are generated for ASAP in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is ASAP, spelled A-S-A-P.
Definition
- 1Abkürzung für as soon as possible ‚so schnell wie möglich‘, ‚schnellstmöglich‘
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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Using “ASAP”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is A-S-A-P - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.