cow
[kaʊ]
The verdict
“cow” is uncommon German (frequency #61,398 among 1,273 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,398
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Kuh; weibliches Rind
Corpus desk
Index DE-cow · cow · German
cow · rank #61,398 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,398
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH cosmos
Nearest frequency peer: cosmos (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „cow“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- colonna
colonna
38,608 corpus weight
- cork
cork
38,606 corpus weight
- correct
correct
38,605 corpus weight
- cosmos
cosmos
38,604 corpus weight
- cow
cow
38,603 corpus weight
- Crêpes
Crêpes
38,600 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „cow“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cow |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaʊ] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #61,398 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „cow“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
cow is uncommon German at frequency #61,398 among 1,273 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [kaʊ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
cow has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is cow, spelled C-O-W.
Definition
- 1Kuh; weibliches Rind
- 2weibliches Tier (zum Beispiel: Wal, Elefant)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cow appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He milks the cows.
This word in other languages
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).