DC
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The verdict
“DC” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #7,892) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #7,892
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deutsche Christen (1932-1945)
Corpus desk
Index DE-dc · DC · German
DC · rank #7,892 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,892
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH dachten
Nearest frequency peer: dachten (-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 „DC“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Classic
Classic
92,112 corpus weight
- comedy
comedy
92,111 corpus weight
- dachten
dachten
92,110 corpus weight
- DC
DC
92,109 corpus weight
- demselben
demselben
92,108 corpus weight
- derzeitigen
derzeitigen
92,107 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „DC“ 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 | DC |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #7,892 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „DC“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for DC is neighbouring look-alikes ("du", "de", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced […]. Frequency #7,892 among 2,764 “D” headwords. Gloss: "Deutsche Christen (1932-1945)".
DC has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "du", "de", "do", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is DC, spelled D-C.
Definition
- 1Deutsche Christen (1932-1945)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how DC appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Auch die DC (Deutschen Christen) forderten die sogennante „Rassenreinheit“ und sahen das Alte Testament als „jüdisch“ an.
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.