ay
[ɑj]
The verdict
“ay” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #30,936) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #30,936
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Himmelskörper, der einen Planeten umkreist; Mond
Corpus desk
Index DE-ay · ay · German
ay · rank #30,936 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,936
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH Autoritäten
Nearest frequency peer: Autoritäten (-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 „ay“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Autogramme
Autogramme
69,068 corpus weight
- autonomes
autonomes
69,067 corpus weight
- Autoritäten
Autoritäten
69,066 corpus weight
- ay
ay
69,065 corpus weight
- Bauleiter
Bauleiter
69,063 corpus weight
- beabsichtig…
beabsichtigten
69,062 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „ay“ 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 | ay |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɑj] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #30,936 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „ay“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ay is neighbouring look-alikes ("AZ", "Aye", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ɑj]. Frequency #30,936 among 6,976 “A” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No misspelling variants are generated for ay in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "AZ", "Aye", "A", 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, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is ay, spelled A-Y.
Definition
- 1Himmelskörper, der einen Planeten umkreist; Mond
- 2zwölfter Teil eines Jahres; Monat
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.