BKA
[ˌbeːkaːˈʔaː]
The verdict
“BKA” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #12,252) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #12,252
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bundeskriminalamt
Corpus desk
Index DE-bka · BKA · German
BKA · rank #12,252 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,252
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Biografie
Nearest frequency peer: Biografie (-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 „BKA“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- bilde
bilde
87,752 corpus weight
- bildenden
bildenden
87,751 corpus weight
- Biografie
Biografie
87,750 corpus weight
- BKA
BKA
87,749 corpus weight
- brother
brother
87,748 corpus weight
- brutto
brutto
87,747 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „BKA“ 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 | BKA |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | [ˌbeːkaːˈʔaː] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #12,252 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „BKA“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for BKA is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "Br", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced [ˌbeːkaːˈʔaː]. Frequency #12,252 among 5,818 “B” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
BKA doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "Br", "bu", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is BKA, spelled B-K-A.
Definition
- 1Bundeskriminalamt
- 2Bundeskanzleramt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how BKA appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Für das rechtsstaatliche Selbstverständnis des BKA ist es – rückblickend – als moralische Katastrophe zu bewerten, dass fast die Hälfte der siebenundvierzig BKA-Chefs als NS-Verbrecher im kriminologischen Sinne bezeichnet werde müssen.“
„Wie DER STANDARD vorab aus informierten Kreisen erfuhr und vom Bundeskanzleramt (BKA) in Folge bestätigt wurde, sprach sich die Bestellungskommission im Anschluss an die Hearings vergangene Woche für den 49-jährigen Juristen aus.“
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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