CHF
The verdict
“CHF” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #11,624) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #11,624
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - internationaler Währungscode für Schweizer Franken, die Währung der Schweiz
Corpus desk
Index DE-chf · CHF · German
CHF · rank #11,624 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,624
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH Chelsea
Nearest frequency peer: Chelsea (-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 „CHF“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- carter
carter
88,380 corpus weight
- castle
castle
88,379 corpus weight
- Chelsea
Chelsea
88,378 corpus weight
- CHF
CHF
88,377 corpus weight
- Clown
Clown
88,376 corpus weight
- Demenz
Demenz
88,375 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „CHF“ 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 | CHF |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #11,624 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „CHF“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for CHF is neighbouring look-alikes ("cm", "cl", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation. Frequency #11,624 among 1,273 “C” headwords. Gloss: "internationaler Währungscode für Schweizer Franken, die Währung der Schweiz".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for CHF, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cm", "cl", "CT", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is CHF, spelled C-H-F.
Definition
- 1internationaler Währungscode für Schweizer Franken, die Währung der Schweiz
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how CHF appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
1 CHF = 100 Rappen
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).