EKD
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The verdict
“EKD” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #21,952) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #21,952
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland
Corpus desk
Index DE-ekd · EKD · German
EKD · rank #21,952 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,952
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH Einzelfälle
Nearest frequency peer: Einzelfälle (-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 „EKD“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- eingestellt…
eingestellten
78,052 corpus weight
- eingetragen…
eingetragenen
78,051 corpus weight
- Einzelfälle
Einzelfälle
78,050 corpus weight
- EKD
EKD
78,049 corpus weight
- empirisch
empirisch
78,048 corpus weight
- Enthüllungen
Enthüllungen
78,047 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „EKD“ 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 | EKD |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #21,952 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „EKD“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for EKD is neighbouring look-alikes ("es", "er", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced […]. Frequency #21,952 among 4,632 “E” headwords. Gloss: "Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for EKD, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "es", "er", "EU", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is EKD, spelled E-K-D.
Definition
- 1Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how EKD appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Bischof Huber, auch Ratsvorsitzender der Evangelischen Kirche in Deutschland (EKD), sagte, Ostern sei als Fest der Versöhnung und des Lebens ein wichtiges Hoffnungszeichen für Menschen in Krisengebieten wie Irak, Nahost und Kosovo.“
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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