Kar
[kaːɐ̯]
The verdict
“Kar” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #40,626) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #40,626
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - kesselförmige Eintiefung an einem Berghang mit flachem Boden und steilen Rückwänden
Corpus desk
Index DE-kar · Kar · German
Kar · rank #40,626 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,626
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH Kalzium
Nearest frequency peer: Kalzium (-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 „Kar“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Jüngern
Jüngern
59,379 corpus weight
- Kalzium
Kalzium
59,376 corpus weight
- Kar
Kar
59,375 corpus weight
- kargen
kargen
59,374 corpus weight
- Kastration
Kastration
59,372 corpus weight
- Katalanisch…
Katalanischen
59,371 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „Kar“ 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 | 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) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „Kar“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Kar is neighbouring look-alikes ("km", "kg", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [kaːɐ̯]. Frequency #40,626 among 4,158 “K” headwords. Gloss: "kesselförmige Eintiefung an einem Berghang mit flachem Boden und steilen Rückwänden".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Kar, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "km", "kg", "KW", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Kar, spelled K-A-R.
Definition
- 1kesselförmige Eintiefung an einem Berghang mit flachem Boden und steilen Rückwänden
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Kar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der Mummelsee, dem der Dichter Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen in seinem Roman Simplizissimus ein literarisches Denkmal gesetzt hat, hat sich in einem Kar gebildet.
This word in other languages
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).