era
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The verdict
“era” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #25,528) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #25,528
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ära, Epoche, Zeitalter
Corpus desk
Index DE-era · era · German
era · rank #25,528 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,528
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH enzyme
Nearest frequency peer: enzyme (-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 „era“
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74,475 corpus weight
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74,474 corpus weight
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74,473 corpus weight
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74,472 corpus weight
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74,471 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „era“ 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 | era |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #25,528 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „era“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for era is neighbouring look-alikes ("es", "EU", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced […]. Frequency #25,528 among 4,632 “E” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No misspelling variants are generated for era in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "es", "EU", "Ex", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 era, spelled E-R-A.
Definition
- 1Ära, Epoche, Zeitalter
- 2Zeitraum
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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