kin
[kin]
The verdict
“kin” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #39,466) as a numeral. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #39,466
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - fünf (5)
Corpus desk
Index DE-kin · kin · German
kin · rank #39,466 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,466
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH Kinde
Nearest frequency peer: Kinde (+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 „kin“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Kerns
Kerns
60,538 corpus weight
- Kernstück
Kernstück
60,537 corpus weight
- kin
kin
60,535 corpus weight
- Kinde
Kinde
60,534 corpus weight
- Kinderklinik
Kinderklinik
60,533 corpus weight
- kinderlos
kinderlos
60,532 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „kin“ 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 | kin |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Numeral |
| IPA | [kin] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #39,466 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „kin“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for kin is neighbouring look-alikes ("km", "KW", …), not just typos; it is anumeral pronounced [kin]. Frequency #39,466 among 4,158 “K” headwords. Gloss: "fünf (5)".
kin doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "km", "KW", "KV", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is kin, spelled K-I-N.
Definition
- 1fünf (5)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how kin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Singla manuo e singla pedo havas kin fingri.“
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 "kin"?
What does "kin" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "kin"?
How do you pronounce "kin"?
What language does "kin" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "kin", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).