dec
The verdict
“dec” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #40,469) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #40,469
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abkürzung für den Monat december; Dezember
Corpus desk
Index DE-dec · dec · German
dec · rank #40,469 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,469
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH DDP
Nearest frequency peer: DDP (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “dec”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- crews
crews
59,535 corpus weight
- Cumshot
Cumshot
59,534 corpus weight
- DDP
DDP
59,533 corpus weight
- dec
dec
59,532 corpus weight
- Denkschrift
Denkschrift
59,531 corpus weight
- denunziert
denunziert
59,530 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “dec” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | dec |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #40,469 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “dec” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for dec is neighbouring look-alikes ("du", "do", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation. Frequency #40,469 among 2,764 “D” headwords. Gloss: "Abkürzung für den Monat december; Dezember".
No generated misspelling entries exist for dec in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "du", "do", "dm", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is dec, spelled D-E-C.
Definition
- 1Abkürzung für den Monat december; Dezember
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dec appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Simhall stängd dec och jan
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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- "dec" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "du". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #40,469 among German headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more German words in the "D" letter cohort. D–Z browse
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.