BMA

abbrev

The verdict

“BMA” is uncommon German (frequency #76,597 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as an abbreviation. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#76,597
frequency rank, German
5,818
“B” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abkürzung für Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales

Corpus desk

Index DE-bma · BMA · German

BMA · rank #76,597 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #76,597
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,818
  • PHOTO-FINISH Blumenwiese

Nearest frequency peer: Blumenwiese (-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.

Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „BMA“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „BMA“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for BMA
PropertyValue
HeadwordBMA
LanguageGerman
Part of speechAbbreviation
Letters3
Frequency rank#76,597
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „BMA“ im Deutschen

Diese Skala geht vom Kern des Alltagdeutschen (links) bis zum seltenen Langschwanz (rechts).BMAfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Blumenwiese“ (#76,596), „BMWs“ (#76,598), „Blumenbeet“ (#76,594). Unter 5,818 „B“-Lemmata liegt „BMA“ bei #76,597. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

BMA is uncommon German at frequency #76,597 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as anabbreviation. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.

BMA has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is BMA, spelled B-M-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Abkürzung für Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales
  2. 2
    Brandmeldeanlage
  3. 3
    Bürgermeisteramt

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how BMA appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. „Die vom Arbeitskreis Maschinen- und Elektrotechnik staatlicher und kommunaler Verwaltungen (AMEV) unter dem Titel ”Planung, Bau und Betrieb von Brandmeldeanlagen in öffentlichen Gebäuden (BMA 2008)“ herausgegebene Arbeitshilfe ist wegen zahlreicher veränderter Normen überarbeitet und durch die BMA 2013 ersetzt worden.“

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "BMA"?
"BMA" is spelled B-M-A.
What does "BMA" mean?
As an abbreviation, "BMA" means: Abkürzung für Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales
What language does "BMA" come from?
"BMA" is a German word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "BMA", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list