CSI
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The verdict
“CSI” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #39,877) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #39,877
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Crime Scene Investigation
Corpus desk
Index DE-csi · CSI · German
CSI · rank #39,877 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,877
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH cruises
Nearest frequency peer: cruises (-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 „CSI“
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60,126 corpus weight
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60,125 corpus weight
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60,124 corpus weight
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What this shows Balken platzieren „CSI“ 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 | CSI |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #39,877 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „CSI“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for CSI is neighbouring look-alikes ("CT", "cu", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced […]. Frequency #39,877 among 1,273 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Crime Scene Investigation".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for CSI, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CT", "cu", "cz", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is CSI, spelled C-S-I.
Definition
- 1Crime Scene Investigation
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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