Aye
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The verdict
“Aye” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #40,408) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #40,408
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - nordfriesischer männlicher Vorname
Corpus desk
Index DE-aye · Aye · German
Aye · rank #40,408 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,408
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH Autoschlüssel
Nearest frequency peer: Autoschlüssel (-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 „Aye“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Autofahrerin
Autofahrerin
59,597 corpus weight
- automatisie…
automatisieren
59,596 corpus weight
- autorisiert
autorisiert
59,595 corpus weight
- Autoschlüss…
Autoschlüssel
59,594 corpus weight
- Aye
Aye
59,593 corpus weight
- Baal
Baal
59,590 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „Aye“ 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 | Aye |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #40,408 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „Aye“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Aye is neighbouring look-alikes ("AZ", "of", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced […]. Frequency #40,408 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Gloss: "nordfriesischer männlicher Vorname".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Aye, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "AZ", "of", "ii", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Aye, spelled A-Y-E.
Definition
- 1nordfriesischer männlicher Vorname
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Aye appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aye versucht schon seit Stunden, „Stairway to Heaven“ auf der Gitarre zu spielen.
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).