kas

[kas]

/[kas]/ pron

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The verdict

“kas” is uncommon German (frequency #52,982 among 4,158 “K” headwords), classed as a pronoun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#52,982
frequency rank, German
4,158
“K” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - wer, was

Corpus desk

Index DE-kas · kas · German

kas · rank #52,982 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #52,982
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,158
  • PHOTO-FINISH Kari

Nearest frequency peer: Kari (-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.

Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „kas“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „kas“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for kas
PropertyValue
Headwordkas
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPronoun
IPA[kas]
Letters3
Frequency rank#52,982
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „kas“ im Deutschen

Die Häufigkeit läuft von den wenigen Alltagswörtern (links) bis zur langen, seltenen Schwanzseite (rechts).kasfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Ticks laufen logarithmisch; jeder ist rund zehnmal seltener. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Kari“ (#52,981), „Kassier“ (#52,983), „karas“ (#52,980). Unter 4,158 „K“-Lemmata liegt „kas“ bei #52,982. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

kas is uncommon German at frequency #52,982 among 4,158 “K” headwords, classed as apronoun, transcribed [kas]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

kas doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

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 kas, spelled K-A-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    wer, was
  2. 2
    der, die, das, welcher, welche, welches

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how kas appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Kas gan ir ar tevi?
  2. Ieradās visi, kas bija aicināti.

This word in other languages

who(English)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "kas"?
"kas" is spelled K-A-S. The IPA pronunciation is [kas].
What does "kas" mean?
As a pronoun, "kas" means: wer, was
How do you pronounce "kas"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "kas" is [kas]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "kas" come from?
"kas" is a German word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "kas", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

jak#52,967gud#52,907pai#53,141bie#52,697

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list