NSA
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The verdict
“NSA” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #4,454) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #4,454
- frequency rank, German
- 1,954
- “N” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - National Security Agency, militärischer Nachrichtendienst der USA
Corpus desk
Index DE-nsa · NSA · German
NSA · rank #4,454 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,454
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,954
- PHOTO-FINISH Märchen
Nearest frequency peer: Märchen (-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 „NSA“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Modus
Modus
95,550 corpus weight
- Märchen
Märchen
95,548 corpus weight
- NSA
NSA
95,547 corpus weight
- Oper
Oper
95,546 corpus weight
- Oscar
Oscar
95,545 corpus weight
- pünktlich
pünktlich
95,544 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „NSA“ 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 | NSA |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #4,454 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „NSA“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for NSA is neighbouring look-alikes ("NT", "ny", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced […]. Frequency #4,454 among 1,954 “N” headwords. Gloss: "National Security Agency, militärischer Nachrichtendienst der USA".
No misspelling variants are generated for NSA in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "NT", "ny", "nur", 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 its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is NSA, spelled N-S-A.
Definition
- 1National Security Agency, militärischer Nachrichtendienst der USA
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how NSA appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Verfassungsschutz und BND dementieren, regelmäßig Daten an die NSA zu übermitteln.“
„Die NSA hat mehr als 30.000 Mitarbeiter, der BND etwa 6300. Der Jahresetat der NSA wird auf zehn Milliarden Dollar geschätzt. Der BND erhielt 2012 erstmals mehr als 500 Millionen Euro, sechs Prozent mehr als im Jahr zuvor.“
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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