DAX
[daks]
The verdict
“DAX” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #5,158) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #5,158
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deutscher Aktienindex
Corpus desk
Index DE-dax · DAX · German
DAX · rank #5,158 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,158
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH Claudia
Nearest frequency peer: Claudia (-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 “DAX”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Boss
Boss
94,846 corpus weight
- check
check
94,845 corpus weight
- Claudia
Claudia
94,844 corpus weight
- DAX
DAX
94,843 corpus weight
- DIN
DIN
94,842 corpus weight
- Dokument
Dokument
94,841 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “DAX” 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 | DAX |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | [daks] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #5,158 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “DAX” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for DAX is neighbouring look-alikes ("du", "de", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced [daks]. Frequency #5,158 among 2,764 “D” headwords. Gloss: "Deutscher Aktienindex".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for DAX, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "du", "de", "do", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is DAX, spelled D-A-X.
Definition
- 1Deutscher Aktienindex
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how DAX appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der DAX stieg um 10 Punkte.
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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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.