Sara
[ˈzaːʁa]
The verdict
“Sara” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #10,162) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #10,162
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - weiblicher Vorname
Corpus desk
Index DE-sara · Sara · German
Sara · rank #10,162 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,162
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH schiffen
Nearest frequency peer: schiffen (+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 „Sara“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- revue
revue
89,843 corpus weight
- Rollstuhl
Rollstuhl
89,842 corpus weight
- Sara
Sara
89,839 corpus weight
- schiffen
schiffen
89,838 corpus weight
- schnellste
schnellste
89,836 corpus weight
- Schumacher
Schumacher
89,835 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „Sara“ 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 | Sara |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈzaːʁa] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #10,162 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „Sara“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Sara is neighbouring look-alikes ("Sr", "Sir", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced [ˈzaːʁa]. Frequency #10,162 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Gloss: "weiblicher Vorname".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for Sara, with forms such as "asra", "sarra", and "sraa". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Sr", "Sir", "Sau", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 Sara, spelled S-A-R-A.
Definition
- 1weiblicher Vorname
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Sara appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Im alten Testament der Bibel ist Sara die Frau von Abraham.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- asra
- sarra
- sraa
- ssara
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Sara - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).