dm
The verdict
“dm” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #2,437) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #2,437
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Einheitensymbol für décimètre/Dezimeter. 1 dm = 10⁻¹ m
Corpus desk
Index DE-dm · dm · German
dm · rank #2,437 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,437
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH definitiv
Nearest frequency peer: definitiv (-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 „dm“
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97,566 corpus weight
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97,565 corpus weight
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97,564 corpus weight
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97,563 corpus weight
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97,562 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „dm“ 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 | dm |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #2,437 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „dm“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for dm is neighbouring look-alikes ("du", "do", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation. Frequency #2,437 among 2,764 “D” headwords. Gloss: "Einheitensymbol für décimètre/Dezimeter. 1 dm = 10⁻¹ m".
Zero misspellings are on record for dm in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "du", "do", "Ds", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is dm, spelled D-M.
Definition
- 1Einheitensymbol für décimètre/Dezimeter. 1 dm = 10⁻¹ m
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dm appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
1 m = 10 dm.
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.