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The verdict
“com” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #10,445) as an adverb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #10,445
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - wie
Corpus desk
Index DE-com · com · German
com · rank #10,445 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,445
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH clip
Nearest frequency peer: clip (-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 „com“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- capital
capital
89,560 corpus weight
- change
change
89,558 corpus weight
- clip
clip
89,557 corpus weight
- com
com
89,556 corpus weight
- Dankbarkeit
Dankbarkeit
89,555 corpus weight
- days
days
89,554 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „com“ 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 | com |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #10,445 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „com“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for com is neighbouring look-alikes ("CT", "Cs", …), not just typos; it is anadverb pronounced […]. Frequency #10,445 among 1,273 “C” headwords. Gloss: "wie".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for com, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CT", "Cs", "Cr", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is com, spelled C-O-M.
Definition
- 1wie
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).