ASAP

abbrev

Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#77,684

in German word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

ASAP is anGermanabbrev. It means: Abkürzung für as soon as possible ‚so schnell wie möglich‘, ‚schnellstmöglich‘

Key facts for ASAP
PropertyValue
HeadwordASAP
LanguageGerman
Part of speechAbbrev
Letters4
Frequency rank#77,684
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of ASAP in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for ASAP is 4 letters long, classified as anabbrev. Corpus data places it at rank #77,684 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Abkürzung für as soon as possible ‚so schnell wie möglich‘, ‚schnellstmöglich‘".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for ASAP in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is ASAP, spelled A-S-A-P, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Abkürzung für as soon as possible ‚so schnell wie möglich‘, ‚schnellstmöglich‘

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #77,684 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ASAP"?
"ASAP" is spelled A-S-A-P.
What does "ASAP" mean?
As an abbrev, "ASAP" means: Abkürzung für as soon as possible ‚so schnell wie möglich‘, ‚schnellstmöglich‘
What language does "ASAP" come from?
"ASAP" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.