Kar
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#40,626
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Kar is aGermannoun. It means: kesselförmige Eintiefung an einem Berghang mit flachem Boden und steilen Rückwänden Pronounced [kaːɐ̯]. Often confused with km and kg.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kar |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kaːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #40,626 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Kar is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kaːɐ̯]. Corpus data places it at rank #40,626 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "kesselförmige Eintiefung an einem Berghang mit flachem Boden und steilen Rückwänden".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Kar in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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.
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 Kar, spelled K-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1kesselförmige Eintiefung an einem Berghang mit flachem Boden und steilen Rückwänden
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Frequency rank: #40,626 in German
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