asse
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The verdict
“asse” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #26,305) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #26,305
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Achse
Corpus desk
Index DE-asse · asse · German
asse · rank #26,305 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,305
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH Ashton
Nearest frequency peer: Ashton (-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 „asse“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- anzuhalten
anzuhalten
73,699 corpus weight
- Argentinier
Argentinier
73,698 corpus weight
- Ashton
Ashton
73,697 corpus weight
- asse
asse
73,696 corpus weight
- auffüllen
auffüllen
73,695 corpus weight
- aufgezählt
aufgezählt
73,694 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „asse“ 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 | asse |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #26,305 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „asse“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for asse is neighbouring look-alikes ("aus", "Aue", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced […]. Frequency #26,305 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Achse".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for asse, with forms such as "ase", "ases", and "aße". 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, "aus", "Aue", "ave", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is asse, spelled A-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Achse
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ase
- ases
- aße
- sase
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of asse - 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 "asse", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).