DRK
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#13,124
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
DRK is aGermannoun. It means: Deutsches Rotes Kreuz Pronounced [deʔɛʁˈkaː]. Often confused with du and Ds.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | DRK |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [deʔɛʁˈkaː] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #13,124 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for DRK is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [deʔɛʁˈkaː]. Corpus data places it at rank #13,124 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Deutsches Rotes Kreuz".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for DRK in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "du", "Ds", "DW", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is DRK, spelled D-R-K, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Deutsches Rotes Kreuz
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Frequency rank: #13,124 in German
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