GABA

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The verdict

“GABA” is uncommon German (frequency #86,500 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as an abbreviation. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#86,500
frequency rank, German
5,117
“G” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gamma-Aminobuttersäure (englisch: Gamma-Aminobutteracid)

Corpus desk

Index DE-gaba · GABA · German

GABA · rank #86,500 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #86,500
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,117
  • PHOTO-FINISH Fürbitten

Nearest frequency peer: Fürbitten (-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 „GABA“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „GABA“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for GABA
PropertyValue
HeadwordGABA
LanguageGerman
Part of speechAbbreviation
IPA[…]
Letters4
Frequency rank#86,500
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „GABA“ im Deutschen

Diese Skala geht vom Kern des Alltagdeutschen (links) bis zum seltenen Langschwanz (rechts).GABAfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Fürbitten“ (#86,499), „fünfzehnten“ (#86,498), „galleria“ (#86,502). Unter 5,117 „G“-Lemmata liegt „GABA“ bei #86,500. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

GABA is uncommon German at frequency #86,500 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as anabbreviation, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Gamma-Aminobuttersäure (englisch: Gamma-Aminobutteracid)".

No misspelling variants are generated for GABA in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is GABA, spelled G-A-B-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Gamma-Aminobuttersäure (englisch: Gamma-Aminobutteracid)

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how GABA appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. „GABA ist im Kortex, im limbischen System und im Thalamus in Interneuronen enthalten und wird dort aus Glutamat durch das Enzym Glutamatdecarboxylase (GAD) hergestellt.“

This word in other languages

GABA(English)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "GABA"?
"GABA" is spelled G-A-B-A. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "GABA" mean?
As an abbreviation, "GABA" means: Gamma-Aminobuttersäure (englisch: Gamma-Aminobutteracid)
How do you pronounce "GABA"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "GABA" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "GABA" come from?
"GABA" is a German word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "GABA", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

gees#86,512fees#86,460GPRS#86,549hark#86,573

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list