DAAD
[deːʔaːʔaːˈdeː]
The verdict
“DAAD” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #48,053) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #48,053
- frequency rank, German
- 45,632
- “D” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst
Corpus desk
Index DE-daad · DAAD · German
DAAD · rank #48,053 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,053
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 45,632
- PHOTO-FINISH CVJM
Nearest frequency peer: CVJM (-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 “DAAD”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Croissant
Croissant
51,951 corpus weight
- curve
curve
51,950 corpus weight
- CVJM
CVJM
51,949 corpus weight
- DAAD
DAAD
51,948 corpus weight
- Darcy
Darcy
51,947 corpus weight
- Deichmann
Deichmann
51,945 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “DAAD” 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 | DAAD |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | [deːʔaːʔaːˈdeː] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #48,053 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “DAAD” sits in German frequency
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for DAAD is neighbouring look-alikes ("das", "dar", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced [deːʔaːʔaːˈdeː]. Frequency #48,053 among 45,632 “D” headwords. Gloss: "Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for DAAD, with forms such as "adad", "daadd", and "ddaad". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "das", "dar", "dpa", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 DAAD, spelled D-A-A-D.
Definition
- 1Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how DAAD appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Mit rund 18.000 Jahresstipendien unterstützt der DAAD jeden zehnten Studenten mit ausländischem Schulabschluss.“
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- adad
- daadd
- ddaad
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of DAAD - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "DAAD", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 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.