cha
[t͡ɕaː˧˧]
The verdict
“cha” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #18,200) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #18,200
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vater
Corpus desk
Index DE-cha · cha · German
cha · rank #18,200 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,200
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH Chats
Nearest frequency peer: Chats (+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 „cha“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Buchhändler
Buchhändler
81,805 corpus weight
- Canada
Canada
81,803 corpus weight
- cha
cha
81,801 corpus weight
- Chats
Chats
81,800 corpus weight
- Columbia
Columbia
81,799 corpus weight
- dell
dell
81,797 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „cha“ 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 | cha |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [t͡ɕaː˧˧] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #18,200 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „cha“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for cha is neighbouring look-alikes ("cm", "cl", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [t͡ɕaː˧˧]. Frequency #18,200 among 1,273 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Vater".
cha has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cm", "cl", "CT", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is cha, spelled C-H-A.
Definition
- 1Vater
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cha appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hãy hiếu kính cha mẹ ngươi, hầu cho ngươi được sống lâu trên đất mà Giê-hô-va Đức Chúa Trời ngươi ban cho.
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.
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).