kan
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The verdict
“kan” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #14,843) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,843
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 1. Person Singular Präsens Indikativ des Verbs kunna ^(→ sv)
Corpus desk
Index DE-kan · kan · German
kan · rank #14,843 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,843
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH kaiserliche
Nearest frequency peer: kaiserliche (-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 „kan“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Justus
Justus
85,160 corpus weight
- kaiserliche
kaiserliche
85,159 corpus weight
- kan
kan
85,158 corpus weight
- kaufst
kaufst
85,157 corpus weight
- kill
kill
85,156 corpus weight
- kontrollier…
kontrollierte
85,155 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „kan“ 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 | kan |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #14,843 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „kan“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for kan is neighbouring look-alikes ("km", "kg", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced […]. Frequency #14,843 among 4,158 “K” headwords. 6 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for kan, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "km", "kg", "KW", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is kan, spelled K-A-N.
Definition
- 11. Person Singular Präsens Indikativ des Verbs kunna ^(→ sv)
- 22. Person Singular Präsens Indikativ des Verbs kunna ^(→ sv)
- 33. Person Singular Präsens Indikativ des Verbs kunna ^(→ sv)
- 41. Person Plural Präsens Indikativ des Verbs kunna ^(→ sv)
- 52. Person Plural Präsens Indikativ des Verbs kunna ^(→ sv)
- 63. Person Plural Präsens Indikativ des Verbs kunna ^(→ sv)
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).