DBA
The verdict
“DBA” is uncommon German (frequency #63,221 among 2,764 “D” headwords), classed as an abbreviation. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,221
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Doppelbesteuerungsabkommen
Corpus desk
Index DE-dba · DBA · German
DBA · rank #63,221 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,221
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH Dayton
Nearest frequency peer: Dayton (-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 „DBA“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- dahinten
dahinten
36,784 corpus weight
- Dauerkarte
Dauerkarte
36,782 corpus weight
- Dayton
Dayton
36,781 corpus weight
- DBA
DBA
36,780 corpus weight
- Denkmuster
Denkmuster
36,778 corpus weight
- destruktiven
destruktiven
36,777 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „DBA“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | DBA |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #63,221 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „DBA“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
DBA is uncommon German at frequency #63,221 among 2,764 “D” headwords, classed as anabbreviation. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Doppelbesteuerungsabkommen".
DBA has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is DBA, spelled D-B-A.
Definition
- 1Doppelbesteuerungsabkommen
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how DBA appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pendler, die sich häufig in Deutschland und in der Schweiz aufhalten, können sich im DBA Deutschland–Schweiz darüber informieren, in welchem Land sie Steuern zahlen müssen.
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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