CAD
The verdict
“CAD” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #23,071) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #23,071
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Computer Aided Design, deutsch: computerunterstützte Verfahren zur Konstruktion von Zeichnungen
Corpus desk
Index DE-cad · CAD · German
CAD · rank #23,071 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,071
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH Burke
Nearest frequency peer: Burke (-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 „CAD“
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76,933 corpus weight
- Burke
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76,931 corpus weight
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76,930 corpus weight
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What this shows Balken platzieren „CAD“ 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 | CAD |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #23,071 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „CAD“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for CAD is neighbouring look-alikes ("cm", "CD", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation. Frequency #23,071 among 1,273 “C” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for CAD in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cm", "CD", "Ch", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is CAD, spelled C-A-D.
Definition
- 1Computer Aided Design, deutsch: computerunterstützte Verfahren zur Konstruktion von Zeichnungen
- 2Chicago Assyrian Dictionary, korrekt: The Oriental Institute, Chicago (Herausgeber): The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt, Chicago, Illinois . Akkadisch-englisches Wörterbuch, Standardwerk
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how CAD appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Um der vielen Nachweise willen müssen die Zitate, bei nur dem allernötgsten Kontext, [in einem Handwörterbuch] äußerst knapp sein. Ausführliche Zitate und Erörterungen dazu gibt das CAD.“
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).