ATA
"ata" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ATA” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #27,369) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #27,369
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Advanced Technology Attachment; a computer bus technology primarily designed for transfer of data to and from a hard disk. (Renamed PATA when SATA came into existence to more clearly distinguish th...
Corpus desk
Index EN-ata · ATA · English
ATA · rank #27,369 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,369
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH ASU
Nearest frequency peer: ASU (-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 “ATA”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- armament
armament
72,637 corpus weight
- Aron
Aron
72,636 corpus weight
- ascribed
ascribed
72,635 corpus weight
- ASU
ASU
72,633 corpus weight
- ATA
ATA
72,632 corpus weight
- Atwood
Atwood
72,631 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “ATA” 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 | ATA |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #27,369 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “ATA”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ATA is neighbouring look-alikes ("aw", "AU", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #27,369 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Advanced Technology Attachment; a computer bus technology primarily designed for transfer of data to and from a hard disk. (Renamed PATA when SATA came into existence to more clearly distinguish th...".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for ATA, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "aw", "AU", "AZ", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: AT + attachment The correct English form is ATA, spelled A-T-A.
Definition
- 1Advanced Technology Attachment; a computer bus technology primarily designed for transfer of data to and from a hard disk. (Renamed PATA when SATA came into existence to more clearly distinguish the two.)
Etymology
AT + attachment
Synonyms
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).