Which to use
“direct” and “direkt” are a confusable German pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #14,541
- “direct” frequency rank
- #393
- “direkt” frequency rank
- 14934
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | direct | direkt |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | aufrecht, direkt, gerade, gradlinig, unmittelbar, recht | in gerader Richtung, ohne Umwege, ohne Umschweife, ohne Verzögerung |
Same sound, different letters: direct vs direkt
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters.
Homophone desk: direct vs direkt
This is the hard kind. direct and direkt are pronounced identically ([di.ʁɛkt]) and both work as anadjective. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by a single letter - c in “direct” becomes k in “direkt”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 14934, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
direct is recorded at frequency rank #14,541, classified as anadj, pronounced [di.ʁɛkt]. direkt is at rank #393, tagged as anadj, pronounced [diˈʁɛkt].
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 14934, this pair ranks #1,947,672 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of direct vs direkt
Shared letters: deirt. Private to "direct": c. Private to "direkt": k.
"direct" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCC · "direkt" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "direct" and "direkt" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary German text, does "direct" or "direkt" show up more?
After this comparison
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "direct" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "direkt" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #1,947,672 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "direct" and "direkt" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "diet vs direct". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #1,947,672 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.