psa
[psa]
The verdict
“psa” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #19,680) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #19,680
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genitiv Singular des Substantivs pies
Corpus desk
Index DE-psa · psa · German
psa · rank #19,680 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,680
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH Prozentpunkte
Nearest frequency peer: Prozentpunkte (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “psa”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Predigten
Predigten
80,324 corpus weight
- Probanden
Probanden
80,323 corpus weight
- Prozentpunk…
Prozentpunkte
80,322 corpus weight
- psa
psa
80,321 corpus weight
- Pt
Pt
80,320 corpus weight
- purer
purer
80,319 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “psa” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | psa |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [psa] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #19,680 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “psa” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for psa is neighbouring look-alikes ("PV", "Pt", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [psa]. Frequency #19,680 among 3,409 “P” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
psa doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "PV", "Pt", "Pu", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 psa, spelled P-S-A.
Definition
- 1Genitiv Singular des Substantivs pies
- 2Akkusativ Singular des Substantivs pies
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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- "psa" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "PV". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #19,680 among German headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.