Goa
[ˈɡoːa]
The verdict
“Goa” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #31,080) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #31,080
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - indischer Bundesstaat an der Westküste des Landes; ehemalige portugiesische Kolonie
Corpus desk
Index DE-goa · Goa · German
Goa · rank #31,080 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,080
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH Golfer
Nearest frequency peer: Golfer (+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 „Goa“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- gezielter
gezielter
68,924 corpus weight
- Giftgas
Giftgas
68,923 corpus weight
- Goa
Goa
68,921 corpus weight
- Golfer
Golfer
68,920 corpus weight
- Goliath
Goliath
68,919 corpus weight
- Gravitation
Gravitation
68,918 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „Goa“ 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 | Goa |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈɡoːa] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #31,080 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „Goa“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Goa is neighbouring look-alikes ("gs", "GV", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced [ˈɡoːa]. Frequency #31,080 among 5,117 “G” headwords. Gloss: "indischer Bundesstaat an der Westküste des Landes; ehemalige portugiesische Kolonie".
No misspelling variants are generated for Goa in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "gs", "GV", "gz", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Goa, spelled G-O-A.
Definition
- 1indischer Bundesstaat an der Westküste des Landes; ehemalige portugiesische Kolonie
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Goa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Aber manche glauben dran und bleiben träumend hängen beim Backpacken, machen in Kapstadt ihre Lodge auf oder stehen mit blondem Filzhaar in Goa am Strand rum und halten sich für Siddharta.“
„Nehru wurde zu jener Zeit vor allem von afrikanischen Nationalisten kritisiert, weil er immer noch zögerte, der portugiesischen Kolonialherrschaft in Goa ein Ende zu setzen.“
This word in other languages
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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