CRT

abbrev

Letters

3 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

CRT is anGermanabbrev. It means: Abkürzung für Cathode-Ray Tube — eine Kathodenstrahlröhre

Key facts for CRT
PropertyValue
HeadwordCRT
LanguageGerman
Part of speechAbbrev
Letters3
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

CRT is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for CRT is 3 letters long, classified as anabbrev. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for CRT in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 CRT, spelled C-R-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Abkürzung für Cathode-Ray Tube — eine Kathodenstrahlröhre
  2. 2
    Abkürzung für Civil Resolution Tribunal — ein Tribunal in Kanada
  3. 3
    Abkürzung für Columbia River Treaty
  4. 4
    Abkürzung für Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy — kardiale Resynchronisationstherapie
  5. 5
    Abkürzung für Critical Race Theory — eine Bewegung von Theorieansätzen, die sich mit dem Zusammenhang zwischen Rasse, Rassismus und dessen Verankerung in Strukturen befasst und diese kritisiert
  6. 6
    Abkürzung für Charitable Remainder Trust — eine unwiderrufliche Struktur, die von einem Spender eingebracht wird

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "CRT"?
"CRT" is spelled C-R-T.
What does "CRT" mean?
As an abbrev, "CRT" means: Abkürzung für Cathode-Ray Tube — eine Kathodenstrahlröhre
What language does "CRT" come from?
"CRT" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Other entries that begin with the letter C in our German index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.