AZ
[aːˈt͡sɛt]
The verdict
“AZ” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #9,150) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #9,150
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Aktenzeichen
Corpus desk
Index DE-az · AZ · German
AZ · rank #9,150 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,150
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH auszugehen
Nearest frequency peer: auszugehen (-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 „AZ“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Auslegung
Auslegung
90,854 corpus weight
- ausrichten
ausrichten
90,853 corpus weight
- auszugehen
auszugehen
90,852 corpus weight
- AZ
AZ
90,851 corpus weight
- balance
balance
90,850 corpus weight
- Bann
Bann
90,849 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „AZ“ 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 | AZ |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | [aːˈt͡sɛt] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #9,150 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „AZ“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for AZ is neighbouring look-alikes ("azur", "A", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced [aːˈt͡sɛt]. Frequency #9,150 among 6,976 “A” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for AZ, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "azur", "A", "an", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is AZ, spelled A-Z.
Definition
- 1Aktenzeichen
- 2Abkürzung und Kfz-Kennzeichen für Landkreis Alzey-Worms und Stadt Alzey
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.