cum
The verdict
“cum” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #7,027) as a preposition. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #7,027
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - mit
Corpus desk
Index DE-cum · cum · German
cum · rank #7,027 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,027
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH Clinton
Nearest frequency peer: Clinton (-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 „cum“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
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chemische
92,977 corpus weight
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Christ
92,976 corpus weight
- Clinton
Clinton
92,975 corpus weight
- cum
cum
92,974 corpus weight
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92,973 corpus weight
- Demokraten
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92,972 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „cum“ 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 | cum |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Preposition |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #7,027 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „cum“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for cum is neighbouring look-alikes ("cz", "CUP", …), not just typos; it is apreposition. Frequency #7,027 among 1,273 “C” headwords. Gloss: "mit".
Zero misspellings are on record for cum in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cz", "CUP", "Cut", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is cum, spelled C-U-M.
Definition
- 1mit
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cum appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cum amicis ambulo.
„Mercurius cumque eo filius Latonas“ (Andr. poet. 19)
Antonyms
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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