AfD
"afd" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“AfD” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #39,181) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #39,181
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative for Germany (Alternative für Deutschland), a right-wing German political party.
Corpus desk
Index EN-afd · AfD · English
AfD · rank #39,181 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,181
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH aerobics
Nearest frequency peer: aerobics (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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 neighbours of confusable “AfD”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- acceptor
acceptor
60,823 corpus weight
- acrobatics
acrobatics
60,822 corpus weight
- aerobics
aerobics
60,821 corpus weight
- AfD
AfD
60,820 corpus weight
- alertness
alertness
60,818 corpus weight
- alleyway
alleyway
60,817 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “AfD” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
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 | AfD |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #39,181 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “AfD”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for AfD is neighbouring look-alikes ("as", "at", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun. Frequency #39,181 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Alternative for Germany (Alternative für Deutschland), a right-wing German political party.".
Zero misspellings are on record for AfD in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "as", "at", "an", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from German AfD (“Alternative für Deutschland”). The correct English form is AfD, spelled A-F-D.
Definition
- 1Alternative for Germany (Alternative für Deutschland), a right-wing German political party.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how AfD appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The country’s mainstream conservatives, as polls predicted, won the largest share of votes in Sunday’s election according to official preliminary results and will be looking to form the next government, while the AfD came in second.
Etymology
Borrowed from German AfD (“Alternative für Deutschland”).
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).