NBA
[ɛnbiˈʔɛɪ̯]
The verdict
“NBA” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #11,103) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #11,103
- frequency rank, German
- 1,954
- “N” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - nordamerikanische Basketball-Profiliga; die mit großem Abstand stärkste und populärste Basketball-Liga der Welt
Corpus desk
Index DE-nba · NBA · German
NBA · rank #11,103 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,103
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,954
- PHOTO-FINISH Nationalspiel…
Nearest frequency peer: Nationalspieler (-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 „NBA“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Mythen
Mythen
88,901 corpus weight
- nachweislich
nachweislich
88,900 corpus weight
- Nationalspi…
Nationalspieler
88,899 corpus weight
- NBA
NBA
88,898 corpus weight
- Niederländi…
Niederländische
88,897 corpus weight
- notiert
notiert
88,896 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „NBA“ 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 | NBA |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɛnbiˈʔɛɪ̯] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #11,103 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „NBA“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for NBA is neighbouring look-alikes ("Ne", "NS", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ɛnbiˈʔɛɪ̯]. Frequency #11,103 among 1,954 “N” headwords. Gloss: "nordamerikanische Basketball-Profiliga; die mit großem Abstand stärkste und populärste Basketball-Liga der Welt".
NBA doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Ne", "NS", "Nd", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is NBA, spelled N-B-A.
Definition
- 1nordamerikanische Basketball-Profiliga; die mit großem Abstand stärkste und populärste Basketball-Liga der Welt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how NBA appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Kobe Bryant hat die Los Angeles Lakers in der nordamerikanischen Basketballprofiliga NBA mit 43 Punkten zu einem 109:106-Sieg bei den Dallas Mavericks geführt.“
„Kobe hatte sich im April nach 20 Jahren in der nordamerikanischen Profiliga NBA von der Basketball-Bühne verabschiedet.“
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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