Eva
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,650
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Eva is aGermannoun. It means: Name der biblischen Eva aus der Schöpfungsgeschichte Pronounced [ˈeːfa]. It ranks #3,650 in German word frequency. Often confused with Ex and ey.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Eva |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈeːfa] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #3,650 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Eva is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈeːfa]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,650 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Eva in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Ex", "ey", "EZB", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Eva, spelled E-V-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Name der biblischen Eva aus der Schöpfungsgeschichte
- 2Bezeichnung einer/der Frau als solcher: Appellativum mit Betonung auf als typisch angesehene weibliche Eigenschaften
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #3,650 in German
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