BfA
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The verdict
“BfA” is uncommon German (frequency #71,166 among 72,680 “B” headwords), classed as an abbreviation. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,166
- frequency rank, German
- 72,680
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Bundesversicherungsanstalt für Angestellte
Corpus desk
Index DE-bfa · BfA · German
BfA · rank #71,166 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,166
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 72,680
- PHOTO-FINISH Beweises
Nearest frequency peer: Beweises (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “BfA”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- bevorzugst
bevorzugst
28,838 corpus weight
- Bewegtbild
Bewegtbild
28,837 corpus weight
- Beweises
Beweises
28,836 corpus weight
- BfA
BfA
28,835 corpus weight
- bidet
bidet
28,833 corpus weight
- Bischofssitz
Bischofssitz
28,831 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “BfA” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | BfA |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #71,166 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “BfA” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
BfA is uncommon German at frequency #71,166 among 72,680 “B” headwords, classed as anabbreviation, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bundesversicherungsanstalt für Angestellte".
BfA has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is BfA, spelled B-F-A.
Definition
- 1Bundesversicherungsanstalt für Angestellte
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
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.