8
[axt]
The verdict
“8” sits in 1 confusable pair (corpus #287) as a numeral. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #287
- frequency rank, German
- 1
- letter
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine arabische Ziffer (ein Zahlzeichen), welche die Zahl Acht darstellt
Corpus desk
Index DE-8 · 8 · German
8 · rank #287 · 0 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-CORE #287
- LEN-SHORT 1 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "8" thin
- PHOTO-FINISH zwar
Nearest frequency peer: zwar (-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 „8“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- vielen
vielen
99,717 corpus weight
- worden
worden
99,716 corpus weight
- zwar
zwar
99,715 corpus weight
- 8
8
99,714 corpus weight
- allerdings
allerdings
99,713 corpus weight
- Art
Art
99,712 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „8“ 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 | 8 |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Numeral |
| IPA | [axt] |
| Letters | 1 |
| Frequency rank | #287 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „8“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for 8 is neighbouring look-alikes ("acht"), not just typos; it is anumeral pronounced [axt]. Frequency #287. Gloss: "eine arabische Ziffer (ein Zahlzeichen), welche die Zahl Acht darstellt".
No misspelling variants are generated for 8 in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "acht", 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 its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is 8, spelled 8.
Definition
- 1eine arabische Ziffer (ein Zahlzeichen), welche die Zahl Acht darstellt
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how 8 appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ein Wagen von der Linie 8 fährt ratternd durch die Stadt.
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.