kapp
[kap]
The verdict
“kapp” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #38,221) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #38,221
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs kappen
Corpus desk
Index DE-kapp · kapp · German
kapp · rank #38,221 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,221
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH kapern
Nearest frequency peer: kapern (-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 „kapp“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Kants
Kants
61,783 corpus weight
- Kanzlers
Kanzlers
61,782 corpus weight
- kapern
kapern
61,781 corpus weight
- kapp
kapp
61,780 corpus weight
- Kaschmir
Kaschmir
61,779 corpus weight
- Klaue
Klaue
61,777 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „kapp“ 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 | kapp |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [kap] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #38,221 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „kapp“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for kapp is neighbouring look-alikes ("KP", "kay", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [kap]. Frequency #38,221 among 4,158 “K” headwords. Gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs kappen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for kapp, with forms such as "akpp", "kap", and "kkapp". 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, "KP", "kay", "kat", 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 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 kapp, spelled K-A-P-P.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs kappen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- akpp
- kap
- kkapp
- kpap
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of kapp - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "kapp", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).