kalt
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,306
in German word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
kalt is anGermanadj. It means: eine niedrige Temperatur habend; von/mit niedriger Temperatur; nicht (mehr) heiß Pronounced [kalt]. It ranks #2,306 in German word frequency. Often confused with KT and kam.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kalt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [kalt] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #2,306 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for kalt is 4 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kalt]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,306 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for kalt, with forms such as "aklt", "kallt", and "kaltt". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "KT", "kam", "Klo", 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 kalt, spelled K-A-L-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1eine niedrige Temperatur habend; von/mit niedriger Temperatur; nicht (mehr) heiß
- 2kein Mitgefühl habend oder zeigend
- 3ungemütlich
- 4ohne die Heizkosten (die dann oft unmittelbar an den [Gas- oder Fernwärme-]Versorger zu zahlen sind; die Angabe ist doppeldeutig: entweder einschließlich der übrigen Betriebskosten oder allein die Grundmiete)
- 5bei Such- und Ratespielen: weit vom zu findenden oder zu erratenden Gegenstand entfernt
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aklt,kallt,kaltt,katl,kkalt,klat
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for kalt
Misspelling Variants of "kalt"
Frequency rank: #2,306 in German
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Nearby German words
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