Panama
[ˈpanaˌmaː]
The verdict
“Panama” has 8 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #14,887. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,887
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Staat in Mittelamerika
Corpus desk
Index DE-panama · Panama · German
Panama · rank #14,887 · 8 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,887
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH palace
Nearest frequency peer: palace (-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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „Panama“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- obgleich
obgleich
85,118 corpus weight
- Ostdeutschl…
Ostdeutschland
85,116 corpus weight
- palace
palace
85,115 corpus weight
- Panama
Panama
85,114 corpus weight
- Parasiten
Parasiten
85,113 corpus weight
- passender
passender
85,111 corpus weight
What this shows „Panama“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
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 | Panama |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈpanaˌmaː] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #14,887 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Panama“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Panama (IPA [ˈpanaˌmaː]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #14,887 among 3,409 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Panama, with forms such as "apnama", "paanma", and "panaam". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "Panda", "Parma", "panem", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Panama, spelled P-A-N-A-M-A.
Definition
- 1Staat in Mittelamerika
- 2Hauptstadt dieses Staates
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Panama appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Panama ist vor allem für den Kanal gleichen Namens bekannt.
„Die Gesamtzahl der Arbeitskräfte Panamas, die einer regulär bezahlten Arbeit nachgehen, liegt bei weniger als einem Drittel der Gesamtbevölkerung.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apnama
- paanma
- panaam
- panamma
- panmaa
- pannama
- pnaama
- ppanama
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Panama - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Panama", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).