con
The verdict
“con” is a regularly-used German word, ranked #8,694 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #8,694
- frequency rank, German
- 3
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Betrug, Betrügerei, Schwindel
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 | con |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #8,694 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “con” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for con is 3 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #8,694 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
con doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CT", "Cs", "Cr", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is con, spelled C-O-N.
Definition
- 1Betrug, Betrügerei, Schwindel
- 2Nachteil (abgeleitet von contra)
- 3Gegenargument
- 4Knacki, Knastbruder
Synonyms
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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Using “con”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is C-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “CT” - see the side-by-side comparison. con vs CT
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.