Ken
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The verdict
“Ken” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #8,893) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #8,893
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine von 43 Präfekturen Japans, das insgesamt in 47 Verwaltungsbezirke geteilt ist
Corpus desk
Index DE-ken · Ken · German
Ken · rank #8,893 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,893
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH Katja
Nearest frequency peer: Katja (-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 „Ken“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Jersey
Jersey
91,111 corpus weight
- Jg
Jg
91,110 corpus weight
- Katja
Katja
91,109 corpus weight
- Ken
Ken
91,108 corpus weight
- Kiew
Kiew
91,107 corpus weight
- Killer
Killer
91,106 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „Ken“ 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 | Ken |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #8,893 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „Ken“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Ken is neighbouring look-alikes ("km", "kg", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced […]. Frequency #8,893 among 4,158 “K” headwords. Gloss: "eine von 43 Präfekturen Japans, das insgesamt in 47 Verwaltungsbezirke geteilt ist".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Ken in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "km", "kg", "KW", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 Ken, spelled K-E-N.
Definition
- 1eine von 43 Präfekturen Japans, das insgesamt in 47 Verwaltungsbezirke geteilt ist
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Ken appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nur die vier Präfekturen Tokio, Hokkaido, Osaka und Kioto werden nicht als Ken bezeichnet.
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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