ea
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The verdict
“ea” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #10,458) as an unknown. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #10,458
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nominativ Singular Femininum des Pronomens is
Corpus desk
Index DE-ea · ea · German
ea · rank #10,458 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,458
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH dürft
Nearest frequency peer: dürft (-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 “ea”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Dur
Dur
89,546 corpus weight
- dämlich
dämlich
89,545 corpus weight
- dürft
dürft
89,544 corpus weight
- ea
ea
89,543 corpus weight
- eingesetzten
eingesetzten
89,542 corpus weight
- einmalige
einmalige
89,541 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “ea” 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 | ea |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Unknown |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #10,458 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “ea” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ea is neighbouring look-alikes ("es", "er", …), not just typos; it is anunknown pronounced […]. Frequency #10,458 among 4,632 “E” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ea, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "es", "er", "EU", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is ea, spelled E-A.
Definition
- 1Nominativ Singular Femininum des Pronomens is
- 2Nominativ Plural Neutrum des Pronomens is
- 3Akkusativ Plural Neutrum des Pronomens is
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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- "ea" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "es". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #10,458 among German headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more German words in the "E" letter cohort. E–Z browse
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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.