con
The verdict
“con” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #8,694) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #8,694
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Betrug, Betrügerei, Schwindel
Corpus desk
Index DE-con · con · German
con · rank #8,694 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,694
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH champion
Nearest frequency peer: champion (-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 „con“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Brigitte
Brigitte
91,310 corpus weight
- champion
champion
91,308 corpus weight
- con
con
91,307 corpus weight
- Darm
Darm
91,306 corpus weight
- Dialekt
Dialekt
91,305 corpus weight
- dramatisch
dramatisch
91,304 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „con“ 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 | con |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #8,694 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „con“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for con is neighbouring look-alikes ("CT", "Cs", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #8,694 among 1,273 “C” headwords. 4 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
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
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how con appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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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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Similar German words by spelling shape
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