kay
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The verdict
“kay” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #10,503) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #10,503
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fisch
Corpus desk
Index DE-kay · kay · German
kay · rank #10,503 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,503
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH Karma
Nearest frequency peer: Karma (-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 „kay“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Kalorien
Kalorien
89,500 corpus weight
- Karma
Karma
89,499 corpus weight
- kay
kay
89,498 corpus weight
- Kekse
Kekse
89,497 corpus weight
- kippen
kippen
89,496 corpus weight
- klopp
klopp
89,495 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „kay“ 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 | kay |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #10,503 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „kay“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for kay is neighbouring look-alikes ("km", "kg", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced […]. Frequency #10,503 among 4,158 “K” headwords. Gloss: "Fisch".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for kay, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is kay, spelled K-A-Y.
Definition
- 1Fisch
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).