NVA
[ɛnfaʊ̯ˈʔaː]
The verdict
“NVA” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #33,738) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #33,738
- frequency rank, German
- 1,954
- “N” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nationale Volksarmee (Streitkräfte der DDR)
Corpus desk
Index DE-nva · NVA · German
NVA · rank #33,738 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,738
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,954
- PHOTO-FINISH näherer
Nearest frequency peer: näherer (+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 „NVA“
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66,265 corpus weight
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66,263 corpus weight
- näherer
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66,262 corpus weight
- Oberlausitz
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66,260 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „NVA“ 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 | NVA |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | [ɛnfaʊ̯ˈʔaː] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #33,738 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „NVA“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for NVA is neighbouring look-alikes ("ny", "Ne", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced [ɛnfaʊ̯ˈʔaː]. Frequency #33,738 among 1,954 “N” headwords. Gloss: "Nationale Volksarmee (Streitkräfte der DDR)".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for NVA, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ny", "Ne", "Na", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is NVA, spelled N-V-A.
Definition
- 1Nationale Volksarmee (Streitkräfte der DDR)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how NVA appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Wie jede Armee ein militärisches Machtinstrument zur Durchsetzung und Wahrung von Klasseninteressen ist, so besitzt auch die NVA vom ersten Tage ihres Bestehens an einen ausgeprägten Klassencharakter.“
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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