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The verdict
“ata” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #46,479) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #46,479
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sie
Corpus desk
Index DE-ata · ata · German
ata · rank #46,479 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,479
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH Armageddon
Nearest frequency peer: Armageddon (-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 „ata“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- archaische
archaische
53,525 corpus weight
- Armageddon
Armageddon
53,523 corpus weight
- ata
ata
53,522 corpus weight
- Atomkrieg
Atomkrieg
53,521 corpus weight
- aufkochen
aufkochen
53,520 corpus weight
- aufrechter
aufrechter
53,519 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „ata“ 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 | ata |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #46,479 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „ata“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ata is neighbouring look-alikes ("AZ", "AV", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced […]. Frequency #46,479 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Gloss: "sie".
ata doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "AZ", "AV", "AW", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 ata, spelled A-T-A.
Definition
- 1sie
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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