Code
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,434
in German word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Code is aGermannoun. It means: ein System von Übereinkünften, das die eindeutige Zuordnung von Zeichen und Zeichenfolgen zweier verschiedener Zeichensysteme festlegt oder auch ein solches Zeichensystem selbst Pronounced [koːt]. It ranks #2,434 in German word frequency. Often confused with con and com.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Code |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [koːt] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #2,434 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Code is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [koːt]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,434 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for Code, with forms such as "ccode", "cdoe", and "codde". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "con", "com", "COP", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Code, spelled C-O-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ein System von Übereinkünften, das die eindeutige Zuordnung von Zeichen und Zeichenfolgen zweier verschiedener Zeichensysteme festlegt oder auch ein solches Zeichensystem selbst
- 2kurz für Quellcode, also der vom Menschen lesbare Code von Computerprogrammen
- 3der genetische Code
- 4die Sprechweise einer bestimmten Sozialschicht nach dem Soziolinguisten Basil Bernstein
- 5ein umfassendes Gesetzesbuch
- 6System zur Verschlüsselung von Texten oder zur Entschlüsselung verschlüsselter Texte
- 7System sprachlicher Zeichen und ihrer Verbindungen
- 8System von Zeichen und ihrer Verbindungen
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccode,cdoe,codde,coed,ocde
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Code
Misspelling Variants of "Code"
Frequency rank: #2,434 in German
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Nearby German words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our German index: