KfW
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The verdict
“KfW” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #24,398) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #24,398
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau
Corpus desk
Index DE-kfw · KfW · German
KfW · rank #24,398 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,398
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH JVA
Nearest frequency peer: JVA (-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 „KfW“
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What this shows Balken platzieren „KfW“ 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 | KfW |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #24,398 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „KfW“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for KfW is neighbouring look-alikes ("km", "kg", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced […]. Frequency #24,398 among 4,158 “K” headwords. Gloss: "Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for KfW, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 KfW, spelled K-F-W.
Definition
- 1Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how KfW appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Einen besonderen Schwerpunkt legt die Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW) auf die Verminderung des CO2-Ausstosses durch Immobilien.“
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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