boa
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The verdict
“boa” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #29,043) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #29,043
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - die Boje: Körper, der auf der Wasseroberfläche schwimmt und auf nicht sichtbare Gefahren unter Wasser hinweist, das Wiederfinden einer Position erleichtert oder zu anderen Zwecken eine Position mar...
Corpus desk
Index DE-boa · boa · German
boa · rank #29,043 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,043
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Blutbad
Nearest frequency peer: Blutbad (-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 “boa”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- blendend
blendend
70,961 corpus weight
- Blockaden
Blockaden
70,960 corpus weight
- Blutbad
Blutbad
70,959 corpus weight
- boa
boa
70,958 corpus weight
- boomer
boomer
70,956 corpus weight
- Brennstoffe
Brennstoffe
70,955 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “boa” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | boa |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #29,043 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “boa” sits in German frequency
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for boa is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "Br", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced […]. Frequency #29,043 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Gloss: "die Boje: Körper, der auf der Wasseroberfläche schwimmt und auf nicht sichtbare Gefahren unter Wasser hinweist, das Wiederfinden einer Position erleichtert oder zu anderen Zwecken eine Position mar...".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for boa, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "Br", "bu", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is boa, spelled B-O-A.
Definition
- 1die Boje: Körper, der auf der Wasseroberfläche schwimmt und auf nicht sichtbare Gefahren unter Wasser hinweist, das Wiederfinden einer Position erleichtert oder zu anderen Zwecken eine Position markiert
This word in other languages
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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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.