Kacke
[ˈkakə]
The verdict
“Kacke” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #6,816. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,816
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - meist feste Ausscheidung des Darmes, Kot
Corpus desk
Index DE-kacke · Kacke · German
Kacke · rank #6,816 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,816
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH Kilometern
Nearest frequency peer: Kilometern (+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 “Kacke”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Jochen
Jochen
93,188 corpus weight
- Journalismus
Journalismus
93,187 corpus weight
- Kacke
Kacke
93,185 corpus weight
- Kilometern
Kilometern
93,184 corpus weight
- Kopfschmerz…
Kopfschmerzen
93,183 corpus weight
- Korruption
Korruption
93,182 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Kacke” 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 | Kacke |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkakə] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #6,816 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Kacke” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Kacke (IPA [ˈkakə]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,816 among 4,158 “K” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Kacke, with forms such as "akcke", "kaccke", and "kacek". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Käse", "käme", "kick", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Kacke, spelled K-A-C-K-E.
Definition
- 1meist feste Ausscheidung des Darmes, Kot
- 2widrige, belastende Dinge/Umstände
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Kacke appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Kacke der Hunde lag auf jedem Gehsteig herum.
„Dann lässt er seinen Hund wahrscheinlich nicht nur weiter die Straßen vollscheißen, sondern wirft die Kacke aus Rache in meinen Briefkasten.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- akcke
- kaccke
- kacek
- kackke
- kakce
- kcake
- kkacke
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Kacke - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Kacke", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).
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.