BMA
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
- Blitzeinsch…
Blitzeinschlag
23,409 corpus weight
- Bloggern
Bloggern
23,408 corpus weight
- Blumenbeet
Blumenbeet
23,407 corpus weight
- Blumenwiese
Blumenwiese
23,405 corpus weight
- BMA
BMA
23,404 corpus weight
- BMWs
BMWs
23,403 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „BMA“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | BMA |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #76,597 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „BMA“ im Deutschen
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
- 1Abkürzung für Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales
- 2Brandmeldeanlage
- 3Bürgermeisteramt
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how BMA appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„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.
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